Jimmy Pardue finished second in the �64 Daytona 500 in this car. Later that same year Jimmy Pardue, was killed while tire testing at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1964. A tire failed on his car and Pardue, who hailed from North Wilkesboro, N.C., sailed over the Turn Four railing and plummeted 90 feet downward to the bottom of the banking.
Pardue had started to fare well. He had won a race in each of the '62 and '63 seasons.