Cook Neilson

Cook Neilson (born August 24, 1943) is an American former <a href="/facts/Journalist/LADe3dzs">journalist</a> and <a href="/facts/Motorcycle/owLPEqSr">motorcycle</a> racer known widely for his win on a <a href="/facts/Ducati/bTIF7F52">Ducati</a> 750SS at the <a href="/facts/Daytona_International_Speedway/xjdW3BFS">Daytona International Speedway</a> in 1977. He graduated from Princeton in the mid-1960s, was hired as associate editor of <a href="/facts/Cycle_(magazine)/eEDrsaWY">Cycle</a> in September 1967; promoted to editor in 1969, and is credited for making that magazine successful through the 1970s. While at Cycle magazine, he wrote a series of articles on the cookbook construction of a 160 mph (260 km/h) <a href="/facts/Top_Fuel/nFRXNXSt">Top Fuel</a> <a href="/facts/Harley-Davidson_Sportster/dr3xF50W">Harley-Davidson Sportster</a>.
Neilson wrote briefly also at <a href="/facts/Car_and_Driver/Y8NtjB7T">Car and Driver</a> in the late 1960s, notably excoriating the 1968 <a href="/facts/Opel_Kadett_B/08CthlI7">Kadett LS 1.5L wagon</a> in what has been described as an automotive assassination review, sacrificing the car in order to increase the magazine's prominence.

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