• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

1973 Husqvarna 250WR

Started on one of the aluminum tanks
A little bondo on some small dents and it should be Mint.
 

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This is the champion Spark Plug Replica
And i found the champion sticker i have is about 1" bigger than the onee on the tank
You referenced to me
So not sure how cool it will be
 
Mine are 4.5"
From this pice they looked more like 3.5"
Just going by the room i have for my Husqvarna sticker and the side of the champion sticker
Centered on the first U
And the Last N
 

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You may have the right size at 4.5". Attached are pics from the original Champion ad with Aberg, an enlarged pic of the tank, and a pic from 'Husky Restorations' of the actual Aberg bike used in the Champion ad.
 

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Still working on my Lister Generator
Getting close
 

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Thanks vins
That is a period steel tank and quite a bit larger than my aluminum tank.
I still haven't got to it yet.
That looks like its just a slapped on sticker,
Mine will be under Clear Coat.
So Far!
 
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