Gwyn Staley

Gwyn Edward Staley (July 6, 1927 – March 23, 1958) was an American NASCAR Grand National driver from Burlington, North Carolina.

Career As a Grand National driver, Staley had three wins in addition to twenty-three finishes in the "top-five" and forty-one finishes in the "top-ten.

Staley won three races driving the Julian-Petty-prepared 1957 Chevy Bel Air. The first win was on August 26, 1957 at the Coastal Speedway in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was a 200-lap race and he had lapped the field.

Eight days after scoring a second-place finish in the 150-lap Grand National race at Champion Speedway in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Staley was killed in a NASCAR Convertible Division where his car rolled over three times before crashing into a fence in a 100-mile race held at the Atlantic Rural Fairgrounds in Richmond, Virginia in March 1958.