I'm from Chicago, and hence I know how the place works. I moved to the Netherlands in 1985, and then moved to Cologne Germany in 1987 before coming to the UK in 1994. I understand Peter Collins (buried in Stone Church near Kidderminster) lived close by to here, and his American wife (?) still lives in the house.
Tony Marsh, former privateer F1 racer, lived in Kinver (where I currently reside).
Yes the Can Am was pretty neat stuff.
One last story, Nigel Mansell's brother in law worked for our company back into the early 1990s, and I told this chap that Nigel was going to win the world championship that year, not because Nigel was good, but because this fellow worked with us !!! Nigel won his only world championship that year. I told him after Nigel went to CART, that Nigel would be the champ there as well, and guess what, it happened again.
He left us and Nigel failed to win any further championships.