Work on your lighting, bud. The backlighting in the first portion of the video makes in nearly impossible to see anything. Some sort of light behind the camera would have helped a ton.

You have to be careful many MANY of these are fakes , like the ultimate G I would probably say it is a fake , as it has nothing on the handle other than the generic ultimate G , notice the classic has special color and says its. A golden trophy, also the black ones are being made by people not sure if any of them are actually from kirby .. i will check with kirby and see what they will say about them.

waht where the other fre vacuums

I had one of these brand new in box then during moving my cousin took it and brought it back with a cracked bag door and a melted roller, he had it for a MONTH

Hey, Do You Think You Can Please Verse This Sharp Twin Energy To The Fantom Twister FM740?

Love these Sharps, especially the TOL ones with variable speed controls and some having electronic touch pad controls

Hoover Dimension 1000 with Eureka powerteam head 1784 with adapter.

Cool guy with a cool collection!

I've got one

I love the look of this cleaner, this is very much the same as the English made Dyson DC02

I would love to see a Fantom wildcat in operation

Thanks for sharing, almost purchased one back in the day, especially with their relentless infomercials. I always held back because I wanted a headlight on the power nozzle. I remember the Kenmore line in Sears...Around that time I was using a Hoover Spectrum 850 canister from 1991/1992 but then purchased a Hoover PowerMax canister around 1998 in hunter green...loved both Hoover canisters at that time.

Love to see your Fantom Lightning and I would love to find one of these someday.

I’d love to see more canister vacuums PS PLEASE start showing the brushroll on the vacuums you show

I had that canister and I really did like it a lot I wish Phantom would come back in business

Great video and super cool machine, but PLEASE START SHOWING THE BRUSHROLL!!

Who’s idea was it to have a bagless commercial vacuum bagged vacuums are superior for commercial use in every way the only benefit I could see is that belts last longer than a sanitaire would but at that point you might as well get an oreck. Now with that being said I don’t hate fantom and I think they made great vacuums back in the 90s but I don’t understand the hype.

This video earned you a new subscription!

Nice Kirby I found one in the trash today I still need to test it out but I’m very excited to find it I been looking for a omega for a while now

I like the vintage rug hanging on the wall!

Also I had no idea oreck’s went that far back, funny enough David Oreck lived in my state before he passed away a while back

Dang i bet it has been used with no filters at some point or the bearings have become dry but they way i hear it sounds like a siren and the whine down is narly but its a cool machine a Piece of Fantoms History and how it all went down

What a cool machine! I myself am a 1973 model, so I like stuff from this time. That woodgrain just screams 70's! My mom had a 1969 (or '70) Rainbow, and while the can itself didn't have woodgrain, right around when I was born, she got the carpet power head, which did have a thick strip of woodgrain. I myself have been infatuated with Kirby for 20+ years, when around 2002, my neighbor "practiced" his demo on me with an Ultimate G. I was gob smacked and hooked. The performance is awesome. It'll practically suck the nails out of the floorboards through the carpet! I couldn't afford it, though. I thought I'd never see another one. They are like the Rolls-Royce of vacuums! I've had 2 Kirby projects, a G5 (my first) and a G4. I don't have them anymore. So, I just bought another project - a Gsix 2001 Limited. I lost my leg to an amputation a couple of years ago and can't get used to the pain of a prosthetic. So, I'm in a wheelchair. I can't use much of any vac, especially a canister. The Tech Drive is a lifesaver for me. Plus, it's a throwback to the days of when you fixed stuff instead of throwing it away. Even the nastiest Kirby can be fixed - all the way up to a full restoration. TLC and elbow grease. The parts are very reasonable to buy, and you don't have to have a library of manuals and a degree in rocket science to fix it yourself. Just a little mechanical aptitude. Thanks. I'm not sure how many of our kind there are, but it's cool to see a kindred spirit.

I love your vids I just found you recently 🎉 :)

That's my favorite vacuum in my favorite color

Euro-Pro bought Fantom in 2001-2002.

Hey, I Actually Like The 700 Versions Of This Commercial Fantom Twister!

Very interesting and rare Fantom. I agree it's hard to envision that being used as a commercial vacuum. I didn't realize Euro-Pro was still using the Fantom name as late as 2006. When did it become "Shark"' Euro-Pro? Anyway a great and enjoyable presentation!

It looks like if Volkswagen made a vacuum

Konnichiwa sir loved your bakyumu kirina i did thought to speak a little Japanese of how much i love your vacuum cleaner

This or the purple version is my holy grail machine. Hopefully one day I come across one. Excellent video! Looking forward to seeing more content on Fantoms!

I’d love to see you do a video on your Supersweep

I live in Australia and my parents had a CMS 1000 manufactured about mid 1989. It had the tool caddy on the top, which you could order separately and essentially stick onto the machine. The machine also came with dry carpet cleaning powder and Medley carpet freshener spray. I do remember that when the dust level reached near the white indicators on the bin, the cyclone performance reduced significantly and the pre motor filters started to clog and there was a noticeable suction drop off. These machine had no post motor filtration. From what I can gather, the CMS 2000 (sold in Aus and NZ) is essentially the same machine as the ClearTrak, just different names.

I remember watching an informercial for the Fantom Twister back when I was a kid. However, I believe it was for the later model. I like the more concealed twister mechanism on this version better, though.

Hey, Didn't You Know That Some Of These Fantom Twister 700 Series Also Came In Commercial Versions?

Hey, This Is The Same Sanyo Dirt-Hunter Style Vacuum My Mom Used To Have

Really good vacuum cleaner

I remember the HSN commercials on these from the mid 2000s

Thought these where lost forever since nobody talks about these

Kenmore "Bugeyes" are probably more scary looking than a Kirby Classic!

Very nice Fantom Fury SE. It sure runs smooth & cleans well also. It's the ideal vacuum for Halloween. The looks were kinda spooky. Whatever faults they had, they are a very unique and cool styled vacuum. No wonder collectors love them! Nice video!🙂

That’s a good looking Guardsmen it looks a convertible

Sounds like a good vacuum cleaner i wonder why some might get allergies of bagless cleaners

That's a nice Fantom Fury Special Edition. Even though the bin is not the original to this particular model as it came from a green 12 Amp Fantom, it still looks cool regardless. This might've been a refurbished model due to the different bin.

It is a hanger bar w/ cord- inserted through divided handle of vacuum cleaner ( braces against sides of handle) then the attached cord hangs from a closet hook. My aunt must have owned this model,I googled it, didn’t want to toss out.Part was still in original envelope with directions on back.

Hi

Hi Karl...that's a screen shot of my orange and brown Fakir! The motor sounds exactly the same!

I have the 2380 that I found at a yard sale and I referenced

I’ve had this machine since the day we bought it new on 06/04/1973. Its never needed anything other than a few brush rolls and belts and three new power cords aside from a couple of routine maintenances done at the local Kirby dealership in the forty nine years that we’ve had it. I only use it one a month now to reset the nap of my wool area rugs by turning them over because I have some excellent premium vacuum cleaners that are lighter in weight like a Sebo G4 upright and a Miele Straight Suction canister vacuum with both a combination straight suction rug nozzle and a turbo driven brush nozzle that are easier to use but I find that every month the Kirby is assuring in my mind that it’s getting tiny specs of sand out of the rugs.

Mom had the gold one that looks like a UFO & floated