The news of Brock Yates’ passing this week hit me hard. Many lost a family member, a friend, and even a partner in…
Brock Yates, the larger than life veteran of numerous automotive publications, creator of the original Cannonball…
Brock Yates has a pretty damn impressive resume. He founded the Cannonball Run and made his money being one of the…
We seriously like Brock Yates and we seriously like the idea of serious writers with a long history coming over to…
Though it's been a while since Brock Yates was fully canned from Car & Driver, and there was talk of him joining the…
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Sedans haven't faired well in our Fantasy Garage. Currently, there aren't any. Once there were two (the Phaeton W12…
Brock Yates runs down his favorite automotive books for the Wall Street Journal. Topics? Henry Ford, Harry Miller,…
After retiring the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy dash, which famously terminated a bit above…
Holy cannoli. As if the auto journalism world couldn't get any more chaotic, Brock Yates has signed on to spill the…
Brock Yates is one of the more divisive figures in automotive journalism. In fact, we feel like a redundant dunce in…
Yesterday, Scotto regaled us with the tale of Ken Block's car crapping out, no doubt leading Block to lament in a…
Erwin G. "Cannon Ball" Baker was a legendary long-distance record setter in the first half of the last century who…
There is one Jalopnik staffer that admits to having never seen the movie The Cannonball Run. We all look at him in…