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. ==References==