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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]
7 de oct. de 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,”...
6 de oct. de 2016 · Brock Yates, Car and Driver ’s Assassin, lost his long battle with Alzheimer’s on October 5, 2016. We take solace in the words he crafted for this publication, his screenplays, and his books, a...
7 de oct. de 2016 · Brock Yates, prominente periodista automotriz y fundador de la famosa carrera Cannonbal, falleció a los 82 años de edad después de perder una larga lucha contra el Alzhaimer.
The screenwriter was automotive journalist Brock Yates, who had conceived the real-life Cannonball Baker event. Yates had originally proposed the race as a writer for Car and Driver.
Conceived by car magazine writer and auto racer Brock Yates and fellow Car and Driver editor Steve Smith, the first run was not a competitive race as only one team was running.
14 de oct. de 2016 · Racer, Writer, Rebel, Car Guy: Brock Yates was the defining automotive journalist of his day. He derided federal automotive-safety regulators as “killjoys and pecksniffs.”. He maybe could forgive Nixon for Watergate, but never for the 55 miles-an-hour speed limit.
