Fantom
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Velomobile
A velomobile or bicycle car is a human-powered vehicle, enclosed for aerodynamic advantage and protection from weather and collisions. They are virtually always single-passenger vehicles. They are derived from recumbent bicycles and tricycles, with the addition of a full fairing . There are few...
with three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. It has no front suspension
Suspension (vehicle)
Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels. Suspension systems serve a dual purpose — contributing to the car's roadholding/handling and braking for good active safety and driving pleasure, and keeping vehicle occupants...
, but has suspension in the rear.
Fantom was never sold as a finished product. Instead it was sold as a set of drawings. The drawings are not exact and should be used as a guide. Hobbex bought the rights to the drawings and have sold it continuously since the 1940s apart from a short break in the 1990s. Over 100,000 copies of the drawing were sold, but few appears to have been completed.
In the 1980s the Fantom was rediscovered by Carl-Georg Rasmussen who built a redesigned version called Leitra
Leitra
Leitra is a Danish company and also the name of the velomobile it makes. In Sweden a design for two persons called Fantom was sold as blueprints in the 1930s and 40s.Many thousands of DIY instructions were sold, but very few were actually built....
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