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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.04.2015 - 6:22 pm
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ASA racer Mike Garvey comes over to the All-Pro series for an
All-American 400 one off and goes home with the trophy. It was his 10th
win in the series, his only start of 2000, and his last appearance in
the series.

Travis Kvapil, a NASCAR Midwest Series racer at the time, makes his only
All-Pro start and finishes in the top-5 after starting from the pole.

This was the final year the All-American 400 counted as a NASCAR All-Pro
series event.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.04.2015 - 6:26 pm
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Former All-Pro series champion Mike Cope returns to the series for a
one-off that proved to be his last start in the series. Cope started
last and finished last after wrecking out early.


  3.   The Great Dave posted:
  01.30.2016 - 12:55 pm
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  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.30.2016 - 5:43 pm
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Billy Bigley, Jr. came into this race needing to finish 15th or better
to clinch the series title over Jeff Fultz and David Reutimann. Bigley
finished fourth to earn his only NASCAR-sanctioned title.

The field did a four-wide World of Outlaws-style "Salute to the Fans"
during the pace laps as it was believed at the time this would be the
last All-American 400 at Nashville Speedway. The iconic race was being
replaced with a new event at the newly-opened Nashville Superspeedway,
the concrete tri-oval also taking over the short track's NASCAR Busch
and Truck series races in 2001. The "Civil War on Wheels" was not run
again until 2004 (with a separate race called the Patriot 200 in 2003
now retroactively added to the race's history).

All Pro staple Ron Young leads a lap but retires early in his final race
in the series.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.30.2016 - 5:46 pm
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TO THE BACK:
#52 Scott Hansen- Driver Change (Dennis Schoenfeld qualified for Hansen
so he could run a NASCAR Southwest Tour race at Phoenix, finishing third
out west before flying to Nashville.)

Hansen's #52 Ford in this race was a Thunderbird, a very rare breed for
competing in a major race by 2000. Ford discontinued that car back in
1997 and replaced it in NASCAR Winston Cup competition in 1998 but a few
hung on longer in the short track ranks. I had no idea one kept running
this late. The T-Bird broke early and was on the sidelines before the
70th lap.


  6.   Unser1 posted:
  03.09.2016 - 5:19 pm
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Snap into a Slim Jim one last time!

This was the All Pro series' last race with Slim Jim as the series'
title sponsor. The popular meat snack brand gave way to Gatorade sports
drinks in 2001.


  7.   rm posted:
  05.02.2017 - 3:00 pm
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Third caution - 68, 72 accident turn 1
Sixth caution - 01, 51, 60 accident turn 1
Seventh caution - 54 accident turn 2
Eleventh caution - 3, 25, 34, 35, 55, 95 accident backstretch
Twelfth caution - 36 spun turn 4
Fourteenth caution - 0, 00 accident turn 1 (not very often you get a
multi-car accident where the combined numbers of the cars involved is zero!)
Fifteenth caution - 09, 10 accident frontstretch

TV broadcast only showed these incidents.


  8.   rm posted:
  09.21.2018 - 6:52 pm
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Pole speed - 116.914 mph

Garvey's winnings: $24,650
Kvapil's winnings: $3,805
Ridley's winnings: $1,385
Reutimann's winnings: $1,960
Stremme's winnings: $1,155


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  02.08.2019 - 9:01 am
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This was Mike Garvey's second and final All American 400 victory. Garvey
ran the Nashville short track classic 10 times between 1988 and 2013,
taking part in the race under various different sanctioning bodies, but
oddly his two wins were the only times he actually finished in the
top-10 of the event. While the All American 400 was revived after this
race in 2004 Garvey wouldn't return to it until 2010 following this win.


  10.   Rich posted:
  09.15.2020 - 2:47 pm
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Mike Hogewood and Chuck Bown were the commentators. Bob Dillner and Jim
Tretow were the pit road reporters.


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