New barn (garage) find...84 500 XC

Made a deal for this one and brought it home today. '84 500 XC that has been sitting for about 30 years with a fried ignition. It's in great shape overall with good compression but needs a lot of details sorted out due to sitting so long. I'm really looking forward to sorting this one out. Tank was sealed and painted at some point in the past, so it looks newer than it is.

that is SWEET

Very nice!

Nice find! Can you tell us more of the story how you found it and where?

I'm in California and the bike was in Arizona. The story of finding this bike was complete coincidence. I raced a vintage desert race on my 430 CR last weekend, a couple friends raced as well. One of my friends was talking bikes at work after the race and a coworker of his mentioned that his father had an old Husky. My friend sent me pics of the bike early this week and told me a coworkers father had the bike and said since I was into older bikes he thought i might be interested in this one. Turned out to be an original owner bike that had been sitting a long time. Got in contact and talked with the owner a bit (a great guy) and he was open to offers so I made him a fair offer. Picked up the bike yesterday.

I've always wanted one of the air cooled Husky 500s and this one sort of fell into my lap, which has never happened. Usually I scour ads etc and put a lot of work into finding bikes, bring home a pile and go from there.

That's is a fantastic start! One of the best I've seen lately. Don'tcha just love barns?

I do, I wish there were more barns around here but most of the bikes I locate seem to be more of a "swamp find"

swamp find, lol

I've pulled a few outta the swamp!! That is a a really nice start!! Great Luck!!

I hear that. I'm working on an 81 430 CR that was sitting outside and every single fastener is a battle with the rust monster. I originally bought it as a parts bike for my 82 but then I didn't have the heart to part it out.

Every part-out is a failed potential save.

I have saved a few but have a butt load of parts!!

Yep the barn finds are getting hard to find these days. Enjoy your great find! It wasn't to many years ago I could find many vintage Huskys in a weeks time. But those days are no more. This haul was a barn find in the spring 2009.

That would be a find of a lifetime in 2024! Most of what I find is single bikes or piles of parts and frames, usually with crazy asking prices. I’m picky and pass on most stuff. A load like that would keep me busy for life

Showoff!!

I couldn't help myself

Since we are talking about hauls, early on during Covid, probably around April/May of 2020, I remember seeing a Craigslist ad from Michigan of a huge stash of vintage Husqvarna bikes and parts. I think the asking price was somewhere around $5-$5.5k, but there must have been at least 15-20 bikes in various states, mainly focusing around early-to-mid 1970s Huskies. Plenty of oval cases, and tons of parts. I was sorely tempted, but it made no sense whatsoever for me at the time. I wish I would have saved pictures. Seeing some of these bikes fetching that much by themselves, it probably would have been a gold mine for the right person w/ the right space.