Customs Kustoms Illustrated # 26...another knockout issue!! Congrats to Ian Berky and....

As usual, Luke Karosi gives us another kick-*** issue full of traditional customs.

Congrats to my homey, Ian Berky, for getting the well-deserved write up on his full-custom '51 Chevy...I'm sure this is just the first of many features we're going to see on this guy's builds.

Rik Hoving blows us away with his custom knowledge and dissects some excellent vintage photos. He also gives us a write up on JarzenHotrod's beautiful '54 Lincoln that graces the cover of this issue.

There's coverage of this year's West Coast Kustoms Crusin' Santa Maria, customs of the L.A. Roadster show, and a whole lot more. So if you haven't seen it, grab yourself a copy...you'll be happy you did.

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Kustoms Illustrated, although I've tried.....haha.

Good job guys.

Bryan

 

Waitin' to see your car in there when it's done!

 

Thanks Bryan,

Glad you enjoy the Old Custom Car photo articles.

Luke has put our a realy great issue again, and I'm proud to be part of it.
As some of you might know I have been doing a few articles for Luke in the past, and will continue doing so aslong as he allows me to do so.

For this issue I was very proud to be able to work on the article on Johnny Jarzen's 1954 Lincoln article.
When I create the articles for Luke I do most of the work, writing, lay-out photos (where I can) and Photoshop work, and supply Luke with complete pdf files ready to print. Luke and I are both on different systems. I'm on Mac using Indsign, and Luke is on PC using XPress. In the past this has caused a few minor problems which could always be "fixed" in time before the magazine was printed.
But unfortunately not this time. On the 54 Lincoln article a few things went wrong, and some of the material from my print ready pdf files where lost in the XPress translation... (yeah I know bla blad digital bla bla, but something got lost and I feel I need to show it here, thats at least the best I can do)

When I started to write the article on Johnny's car I knew I wanted to do something about the use of the special gold powder that he used in the paint. The gold powder that Barris and other customizers in the late 40's and early 50s already used and which was a real important aspect of the built of this car.

Well from the beginning getting a good photo of the gold powder was causing trouble and as Johnny stated the Gold powder photo was doomed from te beginning. And it sure was. The compled photo of the bottle of gold powder is missing from the printed version. The photo was made by our own Kevan Sledge just moments before the deadline ended. Print pdfs where created and there was no reason for the photo to fail... but it did.

I cant show how the page looks now since I dont have a scanned handy (I'm on vacation right now) but I can show you guys how the pages should have looked like.... and sorry for the rant, but if something like this happens I just feel bad about it.


Here is the complete page how it should have looked.




And here is an enlargement of the print file with the gold bottle. (thanks to Kevan for shooting the photo.

 

When it comes to printing...and digital page builds, plan on "Murphy" showing up...

But thanx Rik, for the article...I haven't read all the way thru it yet, but I didn't see any "where" or "were" transposed in it.

R-

 

I just got mine in the mail today...Luke ALWAYS kicks **** with every issue and this one is just as I would expect from cover to cover...the highbar gets raised yet once again!
Keep them coming, Luke!

A big congrats to Ian on his feature, it came out awesome in print!!

Thanks Rik for the superb feature on the '54 Lincoln, what a beautiful car!

 

Thanks Guys for the compliments. I was completely blown away when I got the issue in the mail. I had no idea that I was getting the cover. I cant thank Rik and Luke enough for this. I have read this mag since about the 2nd issue and always dreamed of having my car in there one day and it finally came true. I am very proud of this!!!

 

Congrats Ian and everyone else.

 

Congrats guys!!! The issue is awesome and Johnny Jarzen's Merc is flat out stunning.

 

Thanx so
much Bryan and everyone else! I'm very proud to be a part of this great magazine! Thanx Luke and Jay T. Mason from chrome and light vintage photography!

SO STOKED!

 

I got so caught up in the moment I wanted to say a big congrats to Ian too! The car looks great and is well deserved.

 

Thank you Johnny!!! Same to you brother!!! GREAT ARTICLE!!!

 

Kustoms Illustrated is a great high quality magazine for anyone who is interested in custom cars. If you are a custom car fan and you don't have a subscription, you are doing yourself a disservice!

 

luke does a outstanding job as always and picks cars that we all want to see in print
thanks for a great job

 

If you loe Kustoms and you dont subscribe you need your Kustom Kard revoked!!!! Awesome issue as always. My only complaint is that it only comes out 4 times a year. Please Support Luke so he can keep the flame lit for all us Kustom lovers

 

just got mine in the mail and its another EXCELLENT issue.Congrats to Luke & his staff,Ian & Johnny with their killer RODZ and all the others who made this another KICK *** issue.

 

i gotta reup my subscription..

 

Good to hear! I'm really digging the past issues and will continue to support them. Only if I knew where to get it........and congrats to the above mentioned.

Ken

 

Right here! http://www.kustomsillustrated.com/Subsribe page.htm

 

Another FANTASTIC issue!!! Thanks!!! I even saved the envelope with the Watson tribute (nice touch). Also got the subscription renewal notice and I don't want to send that cool postcard back.

And Rik, thanks for posting the correction, I'm going to print it out and slip it into your article - too cool....

 

Smokin' issue of the only mag in town.
Paul

 

LUKE, anouther very fine job, every issue is wondrfull, just when you think it can't get any better, come on guys better subscribe, thats what keeps thing going. and congrats to Ian, well done holmes!!! I can never get enough of rik's site ,wealth of knowledge that guy is. And for the guys in ks/okla area , I am A dealer for KI so stop by and get you some ! I'm going to try to get some back issues as well. jeff

 

Another fantastic issue! I only had time to look through it five times so far. One of
these days I'll quit just looing at the pictures and read it. If your into Kustoms you
have to subscribe to Kustoms Illustrated or go by Jeff's and get ya some...

Congrats to the HAMBers; Ian Berky hard to believe it is the same car that I saw in Jeff's
shop., Rik Hoving your Kustom knowledge is God sent Thank you for all that you do and
JarzenHotrod's '54 Lincoln that is on the cover. We should see more kustom Lincolns
on the road. Very kool ride.

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

Congrats on the ink to my club brother Johnny Jarzen, doing us proud from Nevada. Also, congrats to Ian, both cars are stunning to say the least. Well deserved gentleman.

 

Luke. Another great issue. Please don't overlook Ed & Judy Banes 56 Ford mild kustom. Very nicely done. It's the type of kustom anyone could build. Roger Jetter did a great job with the photos and story. Great magazine.

 

Thanx Doug, Ed's been a kustom fanatic from his high school days...has had a long string of them...he's currently building a '55 Olds. Ed simply doesn't read the HAMB or post here so no one knows him, but he is hard core kustom.

R-

 

That 56 Ford is super nice..It is simple and perfect!!! Great photos by the way.

 

Didn't mean to over look Roger's kool article. I give him too much love on the HAMB already I didn't think that he need any more...LOL!!! Love ya man!

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

congrats to all of the above....I didn't get a write up...but thats my Buick on the Santa Maria coverage page...and yes i'm stoked non the less

 

Got mine yesterday,top quality magazine.If you`re not familiar with it,please do yourself a favor and get a copy.

 

All those derogatory comments you send my way is "love"...??? Hmmmmmmmmm...!!!

OK, OK, some of them are good ones...besides, my head never gets big, but it is a kick seeing your own by-line, photos and article in such a kool mag...

Thanx Mick,
R-