This is the city that bid for (and won) the rights to host a national BMX event before it had a BMX track to run it on.

This is the city that saw rugby league fans crying out for the chance to see the nation’s best playing in their own backyard and signed a five-year (now 15-year) deal with Penrith Panthers that has become the model for other regional cities.

This is the city that not only responded to the growing popularity by starting the Blayney 2 Bathurst classic, but went further by having it registered on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) calendar as part of the 2019 Gran Fondo World Series.

And this is the city that recognised the potential of a rustic dirt track that snaked around a small mountain just outside the city centre and developed it into one of the world’s premier motor racing circuits.

This is a city that does not ask “why?” but, instead, “how?”.

And so we should not be too quick to dismiss a vision for an iconic four-level building to be built at the top of Brock’s Skyline as mere pie in the sky.

Local man Jim Inwood has conceived the facility and spent the best part of a decade trying to convince others of its merits, and he shows no sign of wavering in that commitment.

It’s certainly an ambitious proposal, including a vehicle display gallery, 1200-seat Great Hall, viewing deck, indigenous interpretive centre, car park and restaurant – but it has always been hard to imagine just how it might come together.

Now, though, thanks to the work of Brisbane-based architect Blair McFarland, we don’t need to imagine.

Mr McFarland has produced detailed drawings of the proposal, along with a high-tech virtual fly through that gives us the best idea yet of just how amazing it could be.

And the thought of an iconic building at the top of our iconic track must have some appeal.

It’s still at the concept stage, but Mr Inwood and Mr McFarland have proved their belief in the project through the enormous hours they’ve already committed to it.

How great would it be to see the state government come on board to support it?

And how great would it be if the state government could stop asking why would we build it, and instead start asking just how could we make it happen?