Sunday 17th April 1966
Jim Paschal took the lead when Richard Petty blew his engine with 53 laps left and went on to win the NASCAR GN ‘Gwyn Staley Memorial 400’ on the 5/8 mile paved North Wilkesboro Speedway, North Carolina. Paschal’s Friedkin Plymouth finished 6 laps ahead of G.C. Spencer’s independent Plymouth.