Posts Tagged ‘Brock Yates’
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions and our own little slice of the seventh layer is being forced to sit on the sidelines as this year's One Lap of America begins... without us. Thankfully, Chris Paukert, our colleague from Winding Road, will be reporting back on the happenings of the 200......
Tags: Brock Yates, burt reynolds, Cannonball Baker, dean martin, Dom Deluise, hell is paved with good intentions, lap of america, little slice, memorial trophy, One Lap Of America, OneLapOfAmerica, paying homage, person team, racetracks, rally stages, road to hell, sammy davis, sammy davis jr, sea to shining sea, trophy dash, winding road
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Winding Road is reporting that Brock Yates, the godfather of automotive journalism in the U.S., may be returning to the pages of Car & Driver. Many of you might remember that Yates was allegedly forced to abandon his column in C&D because of a shakeup taking place at the most popular automot......
Tags: automotive journalism, Brock Yates, c amp, car amp, cryptex, godfather, great cars, high resolution, lap of america, mags, motor trend, new layout, One Lap Of America, Road Rally, road test, shakeup, sponsorship, subscription base, vitriol, winding road
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
The Cannonball Run is returning to America. Named for the highly illegal (and surely equally entertaining) Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash founded by Car & Driver vet Brock Yates, this celeb and party-soaked cross-country run is actually an unsanctioned offspring of the ......
Tags: automotive journalism, Brock Yates, BrockYates, Cannonball Baker, Cannonball Run, CannonballBaker, CannonballRun, captain chaos, CaptainChaos, car amp, car and driver, CarAndDriver, celeb, checkpoints, debauchery, Dom Deluise, DomDeluise, elder statesman, green flag, heir, iteration, lap of america, memorial trophy, offspring, One Lap Of America, racetracks, sea to shining sea, star collector, trophy dash
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