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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'81 HVA engine size

Stapleking

Husqvarna
A Class
Hokay....I'm looking at an '81 Husky, current owner [used car guy] doesn't know the engine size. Looks to me to be a 430 WR, but I'm not certain. Engine no. is 2087 128

Anybody know for sure, or where I might find a database matching nos. to bike/engine model?

Thnx. in advance! :cheers:
 
430 for sure..............2087 is 81 to 83 430 engine prefix. Have one myself so consider that # verified.

Joe
 
Mucho gracias!

If the VIN checks out [I'm a teensy-weensy suspicious of the provinence of this bike], I'm gonna pull the trigger. Have wanted a Swedish-built HVA big-bore for years, but sloth, logistics, and a healthy regard for unbroken limbs, have deterred me. Until now.

This thing is quite literally right up the street, is all there, in running condition, cheap. Will make a great resto project and a fun toy, albeit a potentially deadly one. gonna have to keep it hidden from She Who Must Be Obeyed...
 
I'm sure you can keep it at my friend's farm in Virgil, with his '82 430XC and my '82 250WR. If you get it or any other dirt bike, you're welcome to come down to ride.
 
Norman Foley;26283 said:
I'm sure you can keep it at my friend's farm in Virgil, with his '82 430XC and my '82 250WR. If you get it or any other dirt bike, you're welcome to come down to ride.

You trying to collect the entire 1982 series? :D
 
Norman,

You, and the place down there, are precisely what I have in mind for this bike. We'll see.....seller has not gotten back to me as yet. I'm a bit suspicious of him as this deal is a little too good, and you know what that generally means. It's a "no title" sale which occasionally translates to no legal ownership. Not necessarily as NYS doesn't issue titles for vehicles older than 10 years, but a possibility.... :thinking:
 
Stapleking;26377 said:
Norman,

You, and the place down there, are precisely what I have in mind for this bike. We'll see.....seller has not gotten back to me as yet. I'm a bit suspicious of him as this deal is a little too good, and you know what that generally means. It's a "no title" sale which occasionally translates to no legal ownership. Not necessarily as NYS doesn't issue titles for vehicles older than 10 years, but a possibility.... :thinking:

New York does issue titles for vehicles over 10 years old.... I just bought a '95 Subaru for my daughter and got a title. Friend bought an '80 CAN AM 250 with a title and NY issued a new one. If it has paper work you can get a title. You can't get one out of thin air though.
 
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