here. Bill Elliot and the Elliot brothers, they were extremely nervous because no one had ever gone for a million dollars uh in our sport to win one race. And he had won two of the first three crown jewel events. Uh that was the Daytona 500 and the Winston 500 at Tallaladega where he made up almost two laps there under green. Um didn't win Charlotte. So, he came here with a chance to win a million. The first year of the program that Winston offered the the million-dollar bonus. And when they were putting this thing together, they put the number up here backwards by mistake. And it was said that they were just so nervous about it. And again, that race, Bill was not the fastest. Dale Nhard was faster, Kale Yarbor was faster, Harry Gant was faster, but all had trouble. and he wound up winning the million dollars, which was a as you can see back behind there, there's a there's a lot of symbolic um photography that sort of details that day. This is something pretty cool. We we talked about the Bill Elliot car earlier. This was one of the bills um one of the bills that was, you know, blown in victory lane after Bill Elliot won the race. So, I had this this $1 million bill. And so, what I did, I got I copied it on the back and I got Bill to sign it. But, it was a big- time day for the sport of NASCAR. It put Bill Elliot on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Um, it was it was something, especially the folks that were here that, you know, we will never forget. I was a I was a kid in the grandstand that day. I look at these cars, whether they're recreated or they're not, to me, they are just really, really cool because these machines get to tell the story when the drivers, we as humans, leave this earth. So, this car will be able to tell the story about what Bill Elliot did forever. Um, and so that's why I really love our museum here. I love going to other museums, just taking a look at cars. But every museum you've gone into, you just think about it. The, you know, some of the cars we've seen in here today, the drivers have gone, but their story lives and their spirit lives, uh, through these machines. We just got this just a little over a month ago. Uh, Kale Yarbor, five time Southern 500 winner. Kale actually gave this to the Florence Center, which is in Florence, South Carolina. So, we have it now on loan from them. But this is an authentic car that he had um in it actually was in his uh automobile dealership for many many many years. And probably about six or…
