Career
Nichols worked for Firestone before setting up his own company called Advanced Vehicle Systems in 1968. In 1970 he built his first CanAm car. He decided to call it Shadow, with the team"s logo featured a cloaked spy.
The company entered F1 at the start of 1973 with Follmer and Jackie Oliver driving.
In 1975 Oliver became the team"s commercial director In 1977 most of the team management walked out of Shadow to establish the Arrows team
