Bill Amick (November 16, 1925 – July 15, 1995) was an American professional

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driver from

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. In the

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, he had one win, nineteen top-fives, twenty-seven top 10s, and five poles. Amick also competed in the NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model Division, winning the 1965 championship.

Driving career

After racing in the NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model Division, 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

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. 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

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, Amick retired and started working with NASCAR speedways.

Personal life

Brother of George Amick. Despite sharing the same first name, he was not the father of

Lyndon Amick Lyndon Amick (born June 30, 1977) is an American former NASCAR driver. He spent most of his NASCAR career in the NASCAR Busch Series driving for his family-owned team. Racing career Amick was the 1996 NASCAR Goody's Dash series champion. Amick ...

. They are not related. Lyndon Amick hails from South Carolina, while Bill and George Amick were from Vernonia, Oregon.

Awards

Amick was inducted in the

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in its first class (2002).

References

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