[Turk]

Evan asked..
"Did the Cobra exist before Carroll Shelby visited AC?".

Someone replies:
"I guess if a Honda designer recommends a Mercedes engine to go into the next S2000, that it should be named after him and it's the Ted Johnson S2000 instead of a Honda S2000."

YES. If Ted creates another car marrying the two components, however identical the donors are, he just done did came up with CSXTED. Too bad the other two entities didn't think of it first. See Russ's explanation how this works.

40 years later no one is replicating, copying The Honda, and engine is no longer necessarily the original Mercedes. They are copying and replicating CSXTED!

You deal with it!

TURK