American Iron Magazine – August 2019

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MEMORIES•BY BUZZ KANTER, PUBLISHER

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THIS ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS AMERICAN IRON MAGAZINE FROM

2002 to 2004—good years in the motorcycle busi-

ness and for the magazines that cover them.

2002 was awash with Harley clones to meet

the amazing demand for American V-twins that

H-D could not keep up with. We rode and re-

viewed many S&S-powered V-twins like Big Dog,

Panzer, American Ironhorse, Big Mike’s Chop-

pers (BMC), and others. Our June issue featured

a handmade custom Spiderman-themed chopper

from a little-known father and son team called Or-

ange County Choppers—OCC! It sold better than

we had expected. Our August issue was a massive

220 pages chock full of great reading and the ads

to support all the editorial. We featured another

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OCC bike (a Discovery Channel TV bike) on the

November cover, and it too sold very well.

In 2003 we featured an Indian Larry chopper

to great fanfare. Then, after years of knocking it,

Harley unveiled its new synthetic oil in our April

issue. Then another OCC chopper, the Trim Spa

bike, on the cover in June. October was a special

All-Harley issue to celebrate the Motor Company’s

100th anniversary. And another OCC bike (Fire-

man chopper) on the November cover.

We started the 2004 year testing new Buell and

Victorys. Then a streak of fat 226 to 288 page is-

sues through the year! Man, that was a lot of hard

work for our team to create and share that much

editorial—but we had fun doing it. $,0