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

Brock Yates

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Brock Yates
Age: 82 †
Born: 1933
Born: October 21
Died: 2016
Died: October 5
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Buffalo
New York
Brock Wendel Yates
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Wasting
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