The 2007 Pep Boys Auto 500 is the 33rd race of the 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup season and the seventh race that makes up the 2007 Chase for the NEXTEL Cup. Pep Boys Auto 500 ran Sunday, October 28, 2007 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of one of the most exciting finishes to a NASCAR Cup season, a driver who made his Cup debut in the 1992 race, then known as the Hooters 500, Jeff Gordon was the Grand Marshall, and the driver who drove his last race in that same event, Richard Petty, waved the green flag to start the race. In that race, which was held in November, Alan Kulwicki drove his self-owned #7 Hooters Ford Thunderbird to his lone Winston Cup championship to edge hometown favorite Bill Elliott from nearby Dawsonville by ten points, even though Elliott won the race.
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“We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o’clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)