Interesting Take on Another Replica Car.

[Oreif]

http://jalopnik.com/5715881/the-lamborghini-fiura-will-haunt-your-dreams

It's been a long, arduous three years since V8 Archie kicked off his Pontiac Fiero-based Lamborghini Miura replica project, and hell if he's not all done with it. Risking cries of vehicular blasphemy, we say this thing looks damn good.

The Miura thread on Pennock's Fiero Forum begins in December 2007 as V8 Archie issues his first missive. The commissioned build begins with a donor Fiero GT and a UK-built replicar body waiting in the wings. Archie, owner of Chop Top Fiero in Machesney Park, Illinois, has a long history of squeezing LS V8s into mid-engine Pontiacs. He submits that the drivetrain will be an LS1 w/6-Speed (it ends up as an LS3), not letting on—or perhaps he doesn't know yet—exactly how much work, and to what intensity level this build (and the thread itself) will reach before it's all over in late 2010.

Indeed, V8 Archie's Fiero-based Miura isn't one of those kit-car hack jobs we so often see around here. It's a serious endeavor, and easily one of the most detailed build threads in the history of the oeuvre. We'd suggest pouring a breakfast scotch and delving into it on a day when you've got nothing better to do than, say, watch the cat lick itself. If you're geek enough, this thread delivers.

If you are interested in the original build thread on how it was built:
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum3/HTML/000003.html

Started as this:

Then it looked like this:

Added this:

Cleaned it like this:

Added this:

And

Some paint and you now have this as the finished car:

Click to read more...

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

That's very ugly.

 

[Frank Dukes]

thats one sweet fiero. i think i liked it better in primer.

 

[99PONTIACGP]

Seems like a lot of work for a Fiero, but I liked the finished product.

 

[jason05gt]

That's very ugly.

+1000

Only the blind would love that car!!!

 

[SilentShado]

He should have kept it as a straight up fiero with that motor. The blue "THING" is damn ugly.

 

[Frank Dukes]

a mid engined lightweight car with an ls3.. sounds like win to me. regardless of shell.

 

[KAR]

I'd rock it but prefer a different color.

 

[Oreif]

That's very ugly.

The Lamborghini Miura was made from 1966 until 1973 and was the Lamborghini supercar before the Countach. It use to race against the Ford GT40, Ferrari 512 BB, Ferrari Daytona, De Tomaso Mangusta, and Maserati Ghibli

You can see more pics of the original (even though the replica above is very, very close) here: http://wikicars.org/en/Lamborghini_Miura

While many may see it as ugly, Back in the mid 60's it was one of the best designs. The Miura is also technically the first Supercar ever in the world. Since the word "Supercar", which is coined by L.J.K. Setright, a distinguished automobile journalist, was used for the first time for the Miura on L.J.K's own review of the car.

 

[Riski]

It is not that bad for what it is but I would not build it when there are better kit cars out there for about the same money...such as AC Cobra

 

[frosty23_45]

Miura are awesome cars, that fiero looks pretty sweet.

 

[Oreif]

It is not that bad for what it is but I would not build it when there are better kit cars out there for about the same money...such as AC Cobra

Agreed. Personally if I was to build a kit car, I would go with a 1930's 3-window or 5-window coupe. Always liked those type of streetrods.