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Brock Yates (October 21, 1933 – October 5, 2016) was a prominent American journalist, TV commentator, TV reporter, screenwriter, and author. He was the longtime executive editor at Car and Driver magazine — and contributed to The Washington Post, Playboy, The American Spectator, Boating, Vintage Motorsports as well as other publications. [1]
Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates, A Retrospective Yates penned 15 books, sharing his insights as an amateur racer in Sunday Driver and untold drama in Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine .
Oct 7, 2016 · Brock Yates, an automotive journalist who founded an anarchic, cross-country road race in the 1970s, then fictionalized it in the script for the 1981 Burt Reynolds film “The Cannonball Run,” died...
Nov 5, 2016 · Brock Yates—longtime C/D contributor, short-time editor-in-chief—died on October 5, 2016. He was 82. Yates had been dodging the slings and arrows of Alzheimer's disease for...
Oct 6, 2016 · Steven Cole Smith, a fellow automotive journalist, pays homage to Brock Yates, the iconic writer and creator of Cannonball Run and One Lap of America. He recounts his personal and professional encounters with Yates, who died in 2016 after a long battle with Alzheimer's.
Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates, influential automotive journalist and inventor of the Cannonball Run, died on Wednesday. He was a true legend to the very end.
Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates was a former Car and Driver editor and a prolific car writer who created the Cannonball Run and One Lap of America events. He died in 2016 at the age of 82 after suffering from Alzheimer's for 12 years.
