Bill Amick

Bill Amick
Born(1925-11-16)November 16, 1925
Died(1995-07-15)July 15, 1995
AchievementsNASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model Series champion (1965)
AwardsWest Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame (2002 - Inaugural Class)
NASCAR Cup Series career
48 races run over 8 years
Best finish16th (1957)
First race1954 untitled race (Oakland Speedway)
Last race1965 Motor Trend 500 (Riverside Speedway)
First win1957 untitled race (Capital Speedway)
Wins Top tens Poles
1 27 5

Bill Amick (November 16, 1925 – July 15, 1995) was a NASCAR Grand National Series and West Coast driver from Portland, Oregon. He has one win, nineteen top-fives, twenty-seven top 10s, and five poles in Grand National.

Driving career

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After racing in the NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model Series, Amick jumped to the Grand National Series in 1954 and ran six races. Two years later, he was able to finish seventeenth in the standings. He improved that in 1957, to sixteenth place. That year, he also won his first and only race at the Capital Speedway in Sacramento, California. That was his highest point finish in his NASCAR Grand National Career. He only raced Grand National part-time because he wanted to focus on the Pacific Coast Late Models in which he finished second in the standings in 1964 and won the championship a year later. After a brief stint of running in the Can-Am Series, Amick retired and started working with NASCAR speedways.[citation needed]

Personal life

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Brother of George Amick. Despite sharing the same first name, he was not the father of Lyndon Amick. They are not related. Lyndon Amick hails from South Carolina, while Bill and George Amick were from Vernonia, Oregon.

Awards

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Amick was inducted in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in its first class (2002).[citation needed]

References

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Achievements
Preceded by NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model Series
1965
Succeeded by