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The 24 Hours of LeMons beater-car racing series has fielded just about every theme-based car you can imagine since it began several years ago. There has been an “A-Team” van, a few “Animal House” Deathmobiles and even a plane-car loosely based on the Spirit of St. Louis (if Charles Lindbergh had been an underachieving ground-dweller with low expectations about where he was going in life).

But not until this week has someone had the audacity to recreate Homer Simpson’s ultimate car. The Homer, the creation of television’s dimwitted cartoon everyman, was featured in season 2, episode 15 of “The Simpsons.” The plot has Homer finding his long-lost half-brother, Herb Powell, (voiced by Danny DeVito) who owns a car company in Detroit. Very fond of his new family, Herb asks Homer to design a car for him and, well, the rest is history. Herb’s company goes broke because the hideous/ridiculous car is a flop.

As far as we know, this is the first time the car has made the jump to real life, other than small children’s toys. Like the car on the show, the LeMons Homer is powerful like a gorilla, soft and yielding like a Nerf ball, has a bowling trophy hood ornament, a bubble-top back seat, horrifying fins, lights that would make a 1950s sci-fi director cringe and, of course, a roof-mounted “La Cucaracha” air horn.

“We are Simpsons fans, and we knew that the race organizers had wondered why nobody had ever built the Homer, so we decided that we had to tackle it,” said Kris Linquist, one of the members of Porcubimmer Racing, the team fielding the car.

Mr. Linquist said the team knew their entry, built out of a 1987 BMW E30 sedan, would have to be creative. So many 3 Series cars enter LeMons races, because they’re cheap and they’re decent performers, that the event’s judges needed to be wowed into thinking it was something other than just another Bimmer. (LeMons judges aren’t necessarily “fair” about how they class cars, but they can be bribed with booze and impressed by original decorations.)

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“Buttonturrible was the Homer’s first race, but not the car’s first race,” Mr. Linquist said. “This is actually its ninth or 10th race.”

The car began its racing life as a giant porcupine, he said, then morphed into a compact Teutonic version of Stephen King’s creepy ’58 Plymouth Fury from “Christine.”

All it took to change it from Christine into the Homer was a can of green latex paint, which they matched to the hue of a plastic toy they took to the paint store, and many hours of work. Although the car used to have its original 4,500 r.p.m. redline sixer, the team substituted a more powerful engine from a 1992 325is when the low-power mill blew up. Now it’s one of the faster entries, albeit in a field of pretty wretched cars.

Porcubimmer Racing consists of an auto parts salesman, a couple of engineers and some tech guys, says Scott Chamberlain, another of the team’s members.

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“I was previously an automotive technician for a few years, but nobody else on the team has any professional automotive experience,” he said. “It’s a hobby for most of us. We don’t even have a shop. The car was fully put together in my town home’s two-car garage, affectionately known as the Wrong Tool Chop Shop since we often had to get creative and improvise when we were lacking the correct tools or supplies to get a job done.”

But git ‘er done they did, although the team had to cry a collective “D’oh!” when they lost their transmission at the end of the first day of racing and had to spend much of the night putting in a spare.

“The fact that it actually survived a grueling 14-hour race in 110-degree temps and finished in fifth place out of 150-plus cars is the icing on the cake, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our friends who make up the team,” said Mr. Chamberlain.