pics of my prototype monte and 580bhp 3 door

[Jay P]

This is a really interesting thread, some good info Paul, sooo glad the smiley bonnet wasnt used for the small turbo models.

[Andyescos]

I know it wasn't a "Brooklyn car" but Brooklyn did have both cars for sale at the end of 1995, I drove the prototype and a friend of mine brought number 76 with the jewel violet leather interior (not like the A8 above - more like normal leather interior but in jewel violet/purple), he was told that it came from the prototype and was unique. I'll try and see if he's has any pics.

[Rippers]

Thats interesting Andy but Brooklyn supplied jewel violet monte 092 had the same leather as well and a previous owner of 076 told a story of them Brookyn special orders for Brooklyn managers at the time. There can't have been two interiors from one car?

So we now need to speak to Brooklyn as well

[MATCOS]

So Paul are you saying there were 2 Jewel Violet Montes with the burgundy leather as I am sure there was, nobody else remembers though !

[russellsmith]

no one like the idea with the seats then?

[dunccoss]

So Paul are you saying there were 2 Jewel Violet Montes with the burgundy leather as I am sure there was, nobody else remembers though !

i have seen the car loads of times as it was a northants member that had the car that andy is speaking about, nice car but the plumb colour seats was horid

[COZZFATHER]

So we now need to speak to Brooklyn as well

you will have a job as they went bust

i hate it when that happens with ford dealers,all that history and cars under the bridge and some twat fucks it all up and busts them

[Rich246]

L820 KPU history

Hi All,
I know this thread is quite old but I've only just seen it so I thought I would share what I know. L820 KPU was built as a one off by Ford Motorsport for their then Managing Director. He sent the interior to Italy to have bespoke purple leather trim made. He also had certain parts added from Ford's sister company, Aston Martin. These included door trim plates, wood interior trim and OZ two piece alloys. The car had 300bhp from the factory, the large wing deleted and the oval front grille. He sold the car when it was about a year old to JCT600 Porsche in Newcastle. My cousin bought the car from JCT600 in 1994.

A year or so later my cousin bought a Monte and swapped all the unique parts (seats, Aston trim, wheels etc) with those from the Monte. L820 KPU was never anything to do with the Montes, it just has Monte seats and wheels for this reason.

I hope this is of interest. I will try and find some photos and video footage of L820 KPU in 1994 with the original purple leather.

[Joe-Tait]

Interesting would be great see pictures of both the cars

[fordrs2005]

[quotewh=Joe-Tait;662441]Interesting would be great see pictures of both the cars [/quote]

Here's the 3 door pics here from when a finished working on it

http://escortrscosworth.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=46964

The escort we've been meaning to do a full resto on for 2 years now and never got round to it the

[Joe-Tait]

http://escortrscosworth.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=46964

The escort we've been meaning to do a full resto on for 2 years now and never got round to it the

Hi Gibby, a meant the recent post from Rich246. Would like to see pictures of the escos at the Porsche garage etc if they have them

Russels collection is awesome though

[Rich246]

L820 KPU pictures in 1995

I'll try and find some of the interior if I can. These show the bonnet and wheels which were fitted from new.

[The Radman]

nice pics,great bit of history there,are they oz fittipaldis?

[regi44]

Very interesting info, glad the bonnet idea was scraped

[fordrs2005]

Great bit of info and pics av fired them over to the owner as he's forgot his password for on here