North Carolina man made a Jeeporghini that's half Jeep half Lamborghini and he shared the full process of building it

A North Carolina car enthusiast has created the ultimate DIY automotive mashup, the ‘Jeeporghini’, combining the rugged attitude of a Jeep with the unmistakable shape of a Lamborghini.

Kyle Lewis from Lincolnton, North Carolina, called his creation the “Jeeporghini” and documented the build from its unlikely beginnings.

Rather than starting with an expensive supercar, Lewis began with a Lamborghini body kit that had been sitting on a Pontiac Fiero.

The finished project reportedly cost around $6,000 and took him approximately four months to complete.

The Jeeporghini started life with a Lamborghini body kit on a Fiero

The bizarre Franken-supercar idea came from an abandoned-looking project North Carolina YouTuber Kyle Lewis spotted in a parking lot.

According to Lewis, he saw a Lamborghini body kit fitted to a Fiero that had apparently been sitting there for more than 30 years and instead of simply admiring the bizarre sight, he decided he wanted it for himself.

“I said I want it, so I bought it and started from there,” Lewis explained.

That decision kicked off a four-month DIY automotive transformation that turned the collection of parts into something that looks like it has escaped from a very strange Lamborghini factory.

The result is the Jeeporghini, a DIY automotive build that mixes Lamborghini-inspired bodywork with the proportions and attitude of a Jeep.

It is about as far away from a factory Lamborghini as you can get, but that is exactly what makes it so entertaining.

Kit cars based on the Pontiac Fiero have been around for decades because its mid-engine layout made it a popular starting point for replicas and custom creations.

The Fiero’s proportions have also made it a regular donor for exotic-car replicas, including Lamborghini-inspired builds.

Lewis took that basic idea in a much more unusual direction by combining it with a Jeep-inspired setup.

Lewis’ creation appears to be a completely separate build, making the repeated name a particularly funny coincidence.

Building the franken-car took four months and plenty of hands-on work

For Lewis, one of the best parts of the entire project was not necessarily getting the bodywork to fit but it was painting the finished creation.

He said the paint job was probably the most fun he had with the build, particularly because he did the work by hand.

That DIY approach is part of what makes the project so appealing.

Lewis estimates that he has spent around $6,000 on the Jeeporghini so far, which is a tiny fraction of what a genuine Lamborghini would cost.

It also isn’t exactly built for breaking speed records.

Lewis puts its top speed at roughly 60 mph, meaning this Frankenstein of a supercar is probably happier turning heads than chasing lap times.

And turning heads is something it seems to do very well.

Lewis said the reactions around town have ranged from disbelief to people trying to work out exactly what they are looking at. Pretty much everyone wants to take pictures, while the overall response has been that the bizarre creation is ‘really cool.’

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Considering the project began with a Lamborghini body kit that had been abandoned on a Fiero for decades, getting a $6,000 custom car that attracts crowds wherever it goes sounds like a pretty successful four-month experiment.

After all, there are plenty of Lamborghinis on the road that can do considerably more than 60 mph.

Very few of them, however, can claim to be a Jeeporghini.