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Alzheimer’s claims another great.

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I see the worst part of it, at least for the person suffering from it, as being the middle stages where you still have enough of your mind to know something is wrong but not enough to remember what. Knew several people who either died from it or were caregivers. I think I'd rather go like my granddad, massive heart attack and dead before he hit the floor.
 
In the 70s I was a car crazy kid, early 70s, not even old enough to drive. I read Car and Driver from cover to cover every month. "Along with Leon Mandel, Steve Smith, and Patrick Bedard, Davis and Yates sharpened their wits and words to venture well beyond routine race reports and road tests."

RIP, and thank you Mr. Yates,
 
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I subscribed to C&D during the 1980s and Yates returned to them during that tenure. Yates, Gordon Baxter, Pat Bedard, Csaba Csere, Don Sherman -- back when Automotive Journalism meant something. While I enjoy BBC's Top Gear, it unfortunately changed the whole field of automotive journalism into a reality show. Everyone has a gimmick

One of my favorite columns was Gordon Baxters "That Old Black Healey". Been hoping to find it online without success. It is in one of Baxter's compilations
 
Saxman, I may have it, will try to look and post a scan this weekend if I find it, loved that story too.
 
I saw this on facebook, sad to hear that another one of the greats is gone.
 
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