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Originally Posted by webmaster
Just looking around the web - it looks like they never "got it going again" after they shut down a few years back... e.g. their corporate website is "kinda gone" - been hijacked by someone else, etc.
Your post did give me a bit of nostalgia - there was a young woman I went to junior high school with - mid 1970s - she had an ossa phantom (might have been her dad's but she rode it - lucky girl). The ossa was very fast and very beautiful - when new... I think it had fiberglass fenders - which didn't hold up well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f64DZXCFEhQ
jeff |
I always liked that model bike. I had a '75 Pursang 250, & Montesa '76 VA 360, '77 VB 360 & still have a bought NIB '80 VF 414, but never had a chance to own a Phantom. Contrary to what my wife says, I couldn't own them all.
I heard, or more likely read, that they were light weight, fast & handled well, but a little fragile. Sounds a lot like the twin shock YZ 250 I had.
Too bad they couldn't make a go of it.
RB