Inception of Alan Kulwicki Park and Pavilion

too and I said you know Mark Brooks has died in the plane crashed with you I said we' like to name the building Brooks Pavilion he kind of thought about it he said you know tell you what I said tell you Mr Brooks I said how about donating $500,000 to help for this project oh he said that's a little bit too much for me I said okay so we went back and forth he goes well tell you what I'll donate 100,000 I said oh that's really great thank you you're so generous how about $400,000 wait a minute now here so we kept going back and forth we finally wrote a check for $250,000 well now when we went to places to sponsor like Miller and everybody else we said we need to build a park here we have this much raise checks started coming in because now you have a base there people now knew it was going to happen one of the biggest things that kind of surprised us was we had gone down to Allen house to bring back a lot of his trophies to bring back all his stuff inside of one of the file cabinets at his house was a letter from the head person from Ford Motor Company congratulated Ellen from winning the championship driving a Ford product he was very proud of Ellen so I called him and the guy was like okay I said talking to him on the phone this sign that you see over here with the Hooters car on it we actually the first one we had made up cuz this is our how many donor people donated things we actually had a Ford logo in the very center cuz we were proud of Ford well as I talked to the gentleman from Ford morom I said how did you get my number I said I found it in Ellen's file cabinet and I said I saw the letter that you wrote to him we just thought that Ford Motor Company would be very interested in this project we want to donate just to let you know I said drivers die all the time we can't do that kind of stuff I said what he said well I'm telling you drivers die all the time I said oh wait a minute here drivers don't die tragically like Ellen did I said yes they die yeah we can't be part of this so they never gave anything to the entire project so instead we turned it around put the Hooters car in there but one thing that impressed me was General Motors wrote a check really and they gave us a check the check's actually hanging up here if you walk through the wall over here you'll see some of the checks that were written here so it was kind of cool that you know we actually got a check from from General Motors Good Wrench rote a check for $2,100 which is really quite…