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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Brock Yates

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

— Brock Yates

The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the…

— Brock Yates

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

— Brock Yates

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

— Brock Yates

Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have…

— 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…

— Brock Yates

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before…

— Brock Yates

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

— 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…

— 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…

— Brock Yates

There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now…

— 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,…

— 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 and…

— Brock Yates

I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I…

— Brock Yates

If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of…

— Brock Yates

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and…

— Brock Yates

At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger…

— Brock Yates

Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

— Brock Yates

The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media…

— Brock Yates

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke…

— Brock Yates

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but…

— 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…

— Brock Yates