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Nash-Healey A Grand Alliance

JOHN NIKAS with Hervé Chevalier, Dalton Watson, £195, ISBN 978 1 956309 14 0

THE ‘GRAND ALLIANCE’ subhead to this impressive two-volume slipcased set could equally well apply to the people involved in the book project. John Nikas has already authored a 2020 Healey history, Healey, the Men and the Machines, which our own James Elliott described in his review as ‘a masterwork… brilliant’. As Nikas explains in his foreword to this new work, however, he wasn’t able then to devote as much space to the Nash-Healey as he would have liked.

Coincidentally, leading Healey expert Hervé Chevalier, who himself has written nine books about various Healey models, was working on a book about Nash-Healeys in competition and,

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