As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event. — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
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… — Brock Yates Copy Share
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. — Brock Yates Copy Share
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… — Brock Yates Copy Share
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. — Brock Yates Copy Share
The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered… — Brock Yates Copy Share
Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's. — Brock Yates Copy Share
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at… — Brock Yates Copy Share
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… — Brock Yates Copy Share
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed… — Brock Yates Copy Share
A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law. — Brock Yates Copy Share
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"… — Brock Yates Copy Share
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… — Brock Yates Copy Share
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are… — Brock Yates Copy Share
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… — Brock Yates Copy Share
