August 5, 1962: Jim Paschal Nabs Nashville

Yesterday, Tim and I got our wires crossed and ended up posting about the same race won by Jim Paschal. Today, we're both posting about Jim Paschal again - but in 2 different races in 2 different years.

August 5, 1962 - Jim Paschal drove his #42 Petty Plymouth to victory at Nashville's fairgrounds speedway. He'd also won it the previous year driving a #44 Pontiac for Julian Petty, and he won a 3rd consecutive one on August 4, 1963.

Johnny Allen won the pole but had a dickens of a time trying to keep tires on his car. Finally, a trip to the fence ended his frustrating day - though it wasn't nearly a frustrating day as his scary accident in the Southern 500 about a month later.

Petty Engineering made the most of the day with Richard finishing 2nd to his teammate Paschal.

Read on for more.

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On another anniversary of Paschal's win at Nashville on August 5, 1962, a couple of trivia nuggets:

• For Dave Fulton in particular, I learned the 1962 race was the first time Bud Moore fielded a car at Nashville.
• Paschal gets the victory smooch

• I found this line-up sheet on-line.Source: Tennessee Speed Sport

I still love to see the hand typed lineups. When I first arrived at the Richmond track in 1990, there was not a single computer on the premises. After final qualifying, Dale Earnhardt's former secretary, the late Judy Tucker, would quickly type the starting lineup and we'd hustle over to the local "CopyCat" franchise to have enough printed for the media, the V.I.P. suites and all the programs to be sold and that had already been sold.

Everyone who bought a program before race day got a coupon for a starting lineup. An employee would meet us at CopyCat at 6:00 a.m. on race day morning with the lineups.

The logistics are a little simpler today. God bless all the volunteers who showed up race weekend to help.

Dave, like you, I appreciate the hand-typed lineups. Hard working administrative folks made it happen.

Dave, Dad kept a copy of the results for the 1969 Permatex 300 in a scrapbook. It was a copy from one of those memora-graph machines (I think that is what they were called). It was folded twice and now only 1/4 of the results can be seen. The rest disappeared and what is left is very faint.