"Outlaw" Porsche 550 Spyders

built SEMA style

The key to grabbing attention for exhibitors at the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association show (SEMA) in Las Vegas is to display a car (or cars) with over-the-top build details. 

The Toyo Tires tent at 2019 SEMA show held a pair of highly customized 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder “outlaw” replicas built by Edison Sarkisyan’s S Klub shop in Los Angeles that illustrated this point perfectly, as the cars were mobbed constantly during the show.   

The metallic root-beer brown car with gold accents, converted to a center-steer configuration and powered by an air-cooled Volkswagen engine fitted with Weber carburetors, was a SEMA Battle of Builders finalist.

The gray car is powered by a turbocharged, water-cooled Subaru  WRX engine fitted with a huge intercooler. Said to produce 400 horsepower the engine is fitted with a titanium exhaust system and copper trim throughout the engine bay.

All photos by the author