Career

The series was then known as National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Pacific Coast Late Model (PCLM). Gray also participated in National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Grand National races on the West Coast, capturing 4 wins, including two as an owner-driver. He also ran the 1958 Southern 500 at Darlington and attempted to make the 1960 Daytona 500.

Gray was a commercial pilot for Western Airlines.

Suffered a severe heart attack while driving in the Permatex 100 race for Late Model Sportsman cars at Riverside International Raceway in January 1969 and died nine months later while undergoing heart surgery. He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.

Achievements

• He became champion of a predecessor of the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Winston West Series in 1958, 1961 and 1962. On May 31, 1958, Gray won a 500-mile race at Riverside International Raceway, the first National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing event held at the track. Gray raced Jalopies with the California Jalopy Association (CJA) and became one of the top short track Stock Carolina racers in Southern California at tracks like Saugus Speedway (where he was a track champion), Ascot Park and Orange Show Speedway, earning the nickname "Steady" Eddie Gray.