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title: "2 Driveway Quotes By Brock Yates"
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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/at-car-and-driver-we-were-convinced-that-the-automobile-as-we-knew/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

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> [The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/the-harsh-reality-is-that-america-moves-on-four-wheels-powered-by/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/they-still-talk-about-the-night-that-augie-pabst-a-fresh-faced-heir/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/had-i-been-more-responsible-i-might-have-made-something-of-myself-as/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 drivers never shuck…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/unlike-conventional-jocks-who-tend-to-sell-aluminum-siding-and-give/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/more-books-more-racing-and-more-foolishness-with-cars-and-motorcycles/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/the-whole-movie-thing-has-never-been-a-source-of-great-pride-for-me/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/i-admit-to-wasting-my-life-messing-around-with-fast-cars-and/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/regardless-i-did-rise-to-the-editorship-before-embarking-on-a/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/some-critics-of-racing-witlessly-claim-that-spectators-only-attend-to/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/the-bicycle-is-a-former-child-s-toy-that-has-now-been-elevated-to/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/some-guy-once-told-me-that-skydiving-is-like-cutting-your-throat-and/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/a-written-regulation-in-nascar-is-about-as-reliable-as-an-egyptian/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [ To be sure, \[NASCAR\] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys"… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/to-be-sure-nascar-stars-were-initially-ex-bootleggers-for-the-most/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/will-a-day-come-when-our-cars-have-carbon-fiber-tubs-18-000-rpm-v-10/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/there-was-a-day-when-you-could-identify-a-nascar-ford-chevrolet-or/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/while-greenies-and-their-media-flunkies-continue-to-savage-the/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

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