Bill Amick

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.

Bill Amick
Born	(1925-11-16)November 16, 1925
Died	(1995-07-15)July 15, 1995
Achievements	NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model Series champion (1965)
Awards	West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame (2002 - Inaugural Class)
NASCAR Cup Series career
48 races run over 8 years
Best finish	16th (1957)
First race	1954 untitled race (Oakland Speedway)
Last race	1965 Motor Trend 500 (Riverside Speedway)
First win	1957 untitled race (Capital Speedway)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 27 5

Driving career

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.

Personal life

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

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

References

• Bill Amick driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Racer Profile