Joe Amato (dragster driver)
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Joe Amato is an American dragster driver, who won the National Hot Rod Association's Top Fuel championship on five occasions and scored 52 event victories, most of them with crew chief Tim Richards. H
Amato relaxing in his pit area as an owner at the 2001 Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia, 2001
Amato after winning the 1979 Gatornationals
Amato dragster doing a burnout at the Mile High Nationals in the Denver
Exeter, Pennsylvania
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Exeter is a borough in the Greater Pittston-Wilkes-Barre area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is about 10 miles west of Scranton and a few miles north of Wilkes-Barre. It is located
Joe Amato (dragster driver)
…of them with crew chief Tim Richards. He was the first driver to exceed 260 mph (420 km/h) and 280 mph (450 km/h) in competition. Amato was born in Exeter, Pennsylvania, on June 13, 1944. He began racing cars as a teenager, when he worked at his family's auto parts store. He dropped out of high school to help run the…
House on Slocum Avenue
Route 11 in Exeter
Exeter Borough Hall