Gray

US, 1920

Gray Light Car Corp, Longmont, and Denver, Colo.

The Gray concern with a splendid-sounding title in fact only built two Gray cars, both of them cyclecars of what sounds like a particularly spidery kind. One Gray car for sale was powered by a single-cylinder motor-cycle engine and the other Gray car for sale by a twin, both made by Harley-Davidson. Motor-cycle wheels were fitted.

US, 1922 – 1926

Gray Motor Corp, Detroit, Mich.

During the 1920s, two new makes, Star and Gray, tried to win a share of the mass market dominated by the Model T Ford. The Gray car for sale was in fact made by former employees of Ford, who included the head of the Gray Corporation, F.L. Klingensmith, and this Gray car was similar to the Ford in several features of engine and chassis. A side-valve, 4-cylinder, 2.7-litre engine was used. Unlike the Ford, the Gray cars springing was by conventional quarter-elliptics at front and rear. Front-wheel brakes were offered in 1926 on the Gray car, but that year was its last. The Gray company’s grandiose plans, which included making nearly a quarter of a million cars in the first full year of production, at $490 for the touring car and $760 for the coach, were never fully realized.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN

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