Dewayne Tiny Lund came to NASCAR from Harlan, Iowa in the midwest in 1958. He served four years in the U.S. Air Force before returning to racing in 1963. It was in 1963 that his greatest accomplishment in racing happened. He took the lead in the '63 Daytona 500 with only 7 laps remaining and was victorious. The Wood Brothers Ford that he drove was a car that had been driven regularly by Marvin Panch. Panch had sustained burns in the wreck of an experimental Maserati which kept him from racing. However he advised Glen Wood to let Lund drive the car which he was triumphant in. Ironically, it was Lund who rescued the burning Panch from his car, virtually saving his life.