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In 1950, McGriff won the
Pan American Road Race in Mexico in a 1950 Oldsmobile
88, with an average speed of 79.2 mph over 27 hours,
34 minutes, and 25 seconds. His payoff was more than
$17,000. The same year McGriff made his NASCAR debut
campaigning his #52 City of Roses Oldsmobile in the
inaugural Southern 500 at Darlington where he finished
9th.
McGriff
made 3 starts in the 1951 NASCAR Grand National
Division season driving his own Oldsmobile. He placed
11th at Detroit and 4th in the Southern 500 at
Darlington.
In
1952, He drove Beryl Jackson’s #3 Oldsmobile in 2
NASCAR Grand National events finishing 7th at Detroit
and 15th at Niagara Falls. In 1953, McGriff entered
his own #5 in 2 events.
In
1954, McGriff won a feature event in the inaugural
year of the NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model series,
which would later be renamed the NASCAR Winston West
Series. McGriff drove Beryl Jackson’s Oldsmobile in
2 Grand National events setting the pole at Oakland
Stadium in Oakland, California. He then made 22 starts
driving Frank Christian's #14 Oldsmobile winning 4
events including back-to-back wins at Macon, Georgia
and at Southern States Fairgrounds at Charlotte, North
Carolina finishing 6th in the championship points.
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