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Called the DN2 or Mk3, this Shadow was an upgraded version of the Mk2 with enough detail differences to warrant a new model type. Both cars were designed by Peter Bryant. As driven by Jackie Oliver, the cars failed to achieve success with both its naturally aspirated and turbocharged Chevrolet engines.

To upgrade the Mk2 for the 1971 year, Peter Bryant relocated the front-mounted radiators to the middle of the car on both sides of the driver.

Lee Muir was in charge of engine development and prepared a turbocharged version of the Chevrolet big-block engine with specialists George Bignotti and Danny Jones. They claimed 800bhp and 985lbs/ft torque at 5,000rpm. It debuted this way at the in the 1973 CanAm series.

For the bulk of the season, Jackie Oliver piloted a non-turbocharged car and it was unreliable at the season openers at Mosport, Road Atlanta and Watkins Glen. At Mid-Ohio, the DN2 placed second overall and its the closest Shadow Racing came to victory that year.

Bonham's Auction

At their Important Sale of Collectors' Motorcars and Automobilia on 18 Aug 2006 at the Quail Lodge Resort, Bonhams sold Chassis no. DN2-T1 for $221,500 inclusive of Buyer's Premium. It was described as “This beautifully presented Shadow-Chevrolet is rigged today with the twin-turbocharged potentially 1,200-horspower Chevrolet V8 engine for which it was originally intended. It was prepared to this standard by Don Nichols’s AVS concern specifically for sale to its first owner ex-works, Peter Kaus of the Rosso Bianco Collection, and it is offered here now as a uniquely impressive CanAm car of towering stature – and a classically historic machine which has had only one previous owner “ex-works”.”

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