• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

very rare husky

dumpbear

dumpbear

Husqvarna
AA Class
IMG_0005.JPG Well I just found out what I have for a bike.It took all summer because the husqvarna museum is pretty much closed from july to sept.but with the help of Lennert Emanuelsson I am the proud owner of a 74" 500 GP class #1 factory motocross race bike.It was riden by Heikki Mikkola or Arne Kring. The serial# 74x361 means 74yr,36 is for360 motor and 1 is for the #1 bike built.Lennert said only 4 bikes were built for the 500GP class and #4 is H.M.and is in the museum.Lennert told me please take care of this piece of motocross history.I think i need to put insurance on it but how much?what do you think. IMG_0008.JPG View attachment 31558IMG_0013.JPG
Tom
 
cool bike, & awesome history, neat how the factory bike was a 360 in 74 , i'd guess the prototype for the 360 GP, which we (public) had to wait til 75 for.

I'd say $5K min insurance for the shape it's in currently & triple that + when it's back together.. Be careful though what you do to it,aka repainted it etc, as it can really decrease the value ..
Husky John
 
Well I just found out what I have for a bike.It took all summer because the husqvarna museum is pretty much closed from july to sept.but with the help of Lennert Emanuelsson
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Interesting that you worked with Lennert.He just recently help me ID a 250 cylinder that I bought.Looks to be a special factory cylinder used by Mikkola during his 1976 world championship year.I'm planning to build a replica around this cylinder.Don't think I'll be lucky enough to find the frame.
 
Husky John are you serious on the price and are you saying don't paint anything or don't use rustoleum on this project i might be over my head on this one.Lennert sent me some pics of ser.#4 thats in the museum.My question would be why would the decal on the air cover say replica its one of the originals just a thought.DSCN2243a.JPGDSCN2244a.JPGDSCN2228a.JPG
 
As for the air cleaner,it's the original.In 75 when the 360 was offered to the public for sale it had the flat plastic air box.The factory was still developing the bike for finial production and used the common husky air horn.As for the sticker,it came on the 1975 360 cr.I guess over the years someone put the sticker on the air bell cover.I know lennart must of sent you a large # of pics.Is Heikki's rear frame section jacked up like yours?Something tells me that was done years later.You should straighten it out if that's the way it was in 74.
 
Tom,
you've got a #1 bike, like Lennert said " please take care of this piece of motocross history "... If it was my bike i'd talk to someone you restores
bikes, cause you can quickly take a ton of value out of the bike , by doing the wrong things to it. You may not want to think of this bike as something
you could screw up, but it's only original once.

Ever watch any pawn type show & they get guns & coins where someone refinished or polished them and unknowingly took 1/2 the valve out of them.

You won't take one of Mikkola original bikes & paint the tank blue would you...you can see from the
pics you posted the #4 bike is NOT restored, it's just been cleaned.

Husky John

Give Rob a call, he's done a bunch of very valuable Husky resto's
http://huskyrestoration.com/?page_id=9..
He's a great guy, i'm sure he can give you some ideas
 
The first question I ask,How did it end up in the USA?Once you figure that out then you know how to go about it.The frame and swing arm has been modified,by who and when?
 
Lennert had 2 ideas as how the bike got here first scenario is when H.M. or A.K.got done racing GP they would have came over here and finished racing our mx series and brought the bike with them.#2 In 1975 the bike was considered obsolete so they would ship them here and let there american contracted riders use them ie howerton/hartwig/ect.AS for the swingarm the only difference between the two is the gusset on mine both have been extended. The upswept on mine Lennert thinks its factory bent to accommodate fender clearance on jumps or seat adjustments.It would be interesting to see bike #2 and #3 and compare but i think they are long gone.
Tom.
 
Because you obtained the bike in Michigan it is very likely the bike assigned to Mike Hartwig after he left Yamaha and returned to Husqvarna after mid season in 1974. I read an interview that was done with Hartwig several years ago. He had said his Husqvarna and spent Girling shocks were passed to him from the GP team. His father had sold off most of the bikes Mike had in about 1996. Mike still lives in Hadley, MI
 
dumpbear said:
View attachment 31563 Well I just found out what I have for a bike.It took all summer because the husqvarna museum is pretty much closed from july to sept.but with the help of Lennert Emanuelsson I am the proud owner of a 74" 500 GP class #1 factory motocross race bike.It was riden by Heikki Mikkola or Arne Kring. The serial# 74x361 means 74yr,36 is for360 motor and 1 is for the #1 bike built.Lennert said only 4 bikes were built for the 500GP class and #4 is H.M.and is in the museum.Lennert told me please take care of this piece of motocross history.I think i need to put insurance on it but how much?what do you think. View attachment 31560 View attachment 31558View attachment 31559
Tom
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Great bike! Have you made any progress with the machine since your last post here? I am curious how to get ahold of Lennart Emanualesson, as I also have a machine that may be a former factory racer. Please contact me if you can offer any advice or assistance. Many thanks in advance.
 
dumpbear said:
View attachment 31563 Well I just found out what I have for a bike.It took all summer because the husqvarna museum is pretty much closed from july to sept.but with the help of Lennert Emanuelsson I am the proud owner of a 74" 500 GP class #1 factory motocross race bike.It was riden by Heikki Mikkola or Arne Kring. The serial# 74x361 means 74yr,36 is for360 motor and 1 is for the #1 bike built.Lennert said only 4 bikes were built for the 500GP class and #4 is H.M.and is in the museum.Lennert told me please take care of this piece of motocross history.I think i need to put insurance on it but how much?what do you think. View attachment 31560 View attachment 31558View attachment 31559
Tom
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Absolutely amazing!!
 
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