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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. Okt. 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,”...
14. Okt. 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.
Die Cannonball-Rennen, mit augenzwinkerndem vollem Pomp Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, waren in den 1970er Jahren fünf von Journalist Brock Yates initiierte vornehmlich spaßorientierte schnelle Autowettfahrten quer durch die USA, die zu mehreren meist klamaukbetonten Verfilmungen führten.
Car and Driver Magazine columnist and correspondent Brock Yates, who having created the real-life Cannonball Run, wrote the film directly for the screen, plays the race organizer of who lays down the rules at the starting line. Director Hal Needham appears uncredited as the ambulance EMT.
6. Okt. 2016 · A Tribute to the Late Brock Yates. A master of automotive journalism dead at 82. Steven Cole Smith Writer Oct 06, 2016. See All 2 Photos. I would not be here—"here" being this career, for better ...
6. Okt. 2016 · News. Brock Yates 1933–2016. By Don Sherman Published: Oct 6, 2016. Brock Yates, Car and Driver ’s Assassin, lost his long battle with Alzheimer’s on October 5, 2016. We take solace...
