Another good one gone

From The New York Times, an obituary by Daniel Slotnik:

Brock Yates, writer and rebel who created the Cannonball Run race, dead at 82.
Yates wrote more than a dozen books about cars and motor sports and, during the 1970s, began a cross-country race that inspired a movie starring Burt Reynolds.

Rico says he saw the movie; not very good, but Burt was a '70s kinda guy...