Gillig Phantom

The Gillig Phantom was a high-floor, step-entrance transit bus built by Gillig in Hayward, California, from 1980 until September 2008. It was the first transit bus Gillig assembled entirely itself, after a short joint venture with Neoplan in the late 1970s, and it succeeded the long-running Transit Coach. Sold in 30, 35 and 40 foot lengths and in 96 and 102 inch widths, it came as a standard transit bus, a suburban version with forward-facing seats and, from 1986 to 1993, a school bus. Detroit Diesel and later Cummins diesel engines powered it, with liquefied natural gas and diesel-electric hybrid versions offered for some years. King County Metro bought 100 as body shells between 2001 and 2003 and fitted them as trolleybuses. The Gillig Low Floor replaced it as the company's only product.