[2] During the late 1960s and 1970s Anderson was successful in competition, winning a number of track championships, along with several ARCA and American Speed Association races.
[2] In 1979 he made his first NASCAR Winston Cup Series start, scoring a fifth-place finish in his first race, at Michigan International Speedway.
[2] He ran the majority of the 1980 season for a number of teams, scoring two top-10 finishes; towards the end of the year he was hired by John Rebham to drive for his team;[3] in 1981, driving an Oldsmobile, he was involved in an accident, in which his car got airborne and flipped over multiple times before landing upside down, during the UNO Twin 125 qualifying races for the Daytona 500.
[4] Shortly afterwards, Rebham, impatient for results and under pressure from his sponsors,[5] fired Anderson, replacing him with Donnie Allison.
[2] He was killed in a road crash on Interstate 85 near Charlotte, North Carolina on July 31, 1986, being survived by his wife Mary Ann and two children.