• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

1987 WR 430 Frame Paint

Richard Colahan

Richard Colahan

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm doing a basic clean-up and race/ride prep on a 1987 WR 430...white frame.
Any suggestions on a rattle-can paint...hopefully available at the local hardware or auto store...that comes close to matching the factory "off-white" frame color?

Note: This is NOT a Joe Chod/ Fred Hoess ISDE level restoration...just a nice clean up / touch up.

Thanks for any advice.
 
the duplicolor stuff from napa holds up pretty decent actually. especially with a clear coat. its pretty thin paint, takes a few coats but lays nice..
 
For simple down and dirty but nice is as Jim said......Rusoleum white appliance epoxy paint......takes a while to dry but pretty good for a rattle can.
 
Thanks guys...
When bike is done it will be for sale, I'll post a photo here to see if anyone is interested before listing it on ebay.
Not sure what it will get...it certainly runs strong...and would do very well in AHRMA XC Pre-modern class.
 
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