I debated with myself for all of ten seconds before jumping in, wish I had been awake when it all started.
Evan - much as I like you, you can be a complete toss-pot at times. What is the problem with acknowledging the input of others into CS's dream automobile? Like so many things, it was a joint effort, even if the public only remember one name as the head of it all (which is OK).
Please don't go down the "the world stops at the US border and nothing worth a damn ever got done outside it" route, else I shall have to remind you who designed, built, and operated the ONLY supersonic passenger jetliner. (and some of them were cheese eating surrender monkeys).
Or about a certain US WWII fighter that wasn't worth much until a Brit engine got dropped into it.
Or about a little ol' English sports car that first ran with a 260 V8 in ENGLAND!!. And about it's race pedigree before ol Shel ever got his hands on it.
Let's not go there though, I still like you.
