One of my first cars, the 1905 Phompsonby Family from Phompsonby Motor Vehicles - #2 by legodude494. Inline 3 engine, 4 seater, handmade with care wooden interior, luxury seating and all the qualities of modern motoring!
The 1960 Phompsonby Le Mans Special marked Phompsonby’s return to motorsport after a 20 year heighatus due to the Second World War. Designed and developed in the latter half of the 1950s, the original Le Mans special was, as the name implied, designed for the 24 hour Le Mans race and started a long tradition of keeping that name for each incarnation of the endurance car for the next 60 years and counting. The car mounted a boxer 6 and each version improved upon it. This is the original car and the body type and style remained consistent for the next 20 years.
The 1970 Phompsonby Elematic, a 278 HP boxer 4 sports car weighing just 884kg! RWD 5 speed manual combined with the very low weight and good power output meant it was very popular in the '70s. Pop-up headlights, 6 exhausts arranged in a tri pattern either side along with a very sleek design made it a good competitor to sports cars with nearly double its power output. The Elematic saw a triumpant return as a part of the Phompsonby ‘Retro Line’ in 2020 when the Elematic II was released 50 years after the original with a very similar design, the same low weight and a turbocharged boxer 4.
The original Elematic:
The successor Elematic II:
