At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.
Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls. - Brock Yates
Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.
- Brock Yates
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post wit… - Brock Yates
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post wit…
I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. - Brock Yates
I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous r… - Brock Yates
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous r…
Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's. - Brock Yates
Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark… - Brock Yates
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark…
Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prov… - Brock Yates
Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prov…
Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race dr… - Brock Yates
Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race dr…
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing … - Brock Yates
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing …
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