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Book of the month
Shadow, the Magnificent Machines of a Man of Mystery
PETE LYONS, Evro, £75, ISBN 978 1 910505 49 6
‘I’d like to see Don [Nichols] get credit for being a major racecar constructor from the United States. Everybody talks about Dan Gurney, everybody talks about Chaparral, but for some reason they don’t seem to talk in similar terms about Shadow. That may be because of Don, I don’t know. But I have been disappointed that what he did achieve has not been appreciated.’
The words of Jackie Oliver, who raced Don Nichols’ cars for seven seasons and won the Can-Am series for Shadow in 1974. Reading this superb and in-depth book – it runs to 464 pages – about the man and his cars, you can understand why Oliver puts in the caveat about his employer’s character. Nichols was nothing
