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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'82 430WR

Mercury cars are first for me. A year or so ago I finished up a 69 Cougar Sports Special.
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That is my friend's 66 Comet Cyclone behind me on our way to the All Ford show in Carlisle, PA. It's a 289 car. We are putting together a 445 stroker for it.

My next project is a 68 Mercury Monterey. I hit a deer with the car almost 4 years ago, the front clip has been off for a long time as I started to work on it. Only problem is other projects keep getting ahead of it. I bought a rotisserie in fall and hoped to get the Monterey body on there. But, again, too busy.

The other Mercs I have are 58 Parklane, 58 Monterey 4door----summer driver, 69 Cougar XR-7 S-code, 70 Cougar XR-7 conv, 68 Monterey conv, 64 Montclair Marauder, 70 Cougar XR-7 w/460 installed and a 58 Montlcair TPC parts car.
Incase you've ever wondered about my user name, I have a 69 Eliminator which has been verified as the lowest vin of all Eliminators made. unfortunately, it's total project.

Defintiely love Ponitacs and Buicks too. A few friends had Pontiacs that I used to help work on. For a while, I had a 72 Buick Skylark.
 
FirstEliminator said:
Mercury cars are first for me. A year or so ago I finished up a 69 Cougar Sports Special.
IMG_4272.jpg


That is my friend's 66 Comet Cyclone behind me on our way to the All Ford show in Carlisle, PA. It's a 289 car. We are putting together a 445 stroker for it.

My next project is a 68 Mercury Monterey. I hit a deer with the car almost 4 years ago, the front clip has been off for a long time as I started to work on it. Only problem is other projects keep getting ahead of it. I bought a rotisserie in fall and hoped to get the Monterey body on there. But, again, too busy.

The other Mercs I have are 58 Parklane, 58 Monterey 4door----summer driver, 69 Cougar XR-7 S-code, 70 Cougar XR-7 conv, 68 Monterey conv, 64 Montclair Marauder, 70 Cougar XR-7 w/460 installed and a 58 Montlcair TPC parts car.
Incase you've ever wondered about my user name, I have a 69 Eliminator which has been verified as the lowest vin of all Eliminators made. unfortunately, it's total project.

Defintiely love Ponitacs and Buicks too. A few friends had Pontiacs that I used to help work on. For a while, I had a 72 Buick Skylark.
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My mom had a '66 Cyclone GT convertible, dark blue, white top and stripes, 390, 4 barrel, 4 speed. My brother wrecked it his senior year of high school and it wasn't a year old. Quite the car!
 
Here are a couple of my Cyclone GT, its dark green, black vinyl top, an automatic 390. I bought it in 1989 in California.

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I took these because at the time I had just gotten the bumpers back from being rechromed. Some of the trim is gone off the back and the hood because they were being restored. I have a spare fiberglass hood that came with the car, the better one I am going to leave stock the other one I am going to build a real ram-air setup with the fake scoops.
 
Wow, awesome. I love the color. That looks close to one of the stock Mercury colors for 1968 which was Augusta Green. I am sure the same color was available over a few years---so it might be the same. My 68 Monterey convertible is originally Grecian Gold--which is o-k, but not my style. When the time comes to restore it, being it has a black interior it will be getting the Augusta Green on the body.
 
Its a really dark metallic green, I think in '66 it was called Ivy Green. A lot of these colors are the same, they just change the name. For example, the Poppy Red '65 is exactly the same color as the Performance Red of the '93 Cobra. If you go have the paints mixed, its the same formula. The car is completely and totally stock, but we replaced the interior and I forgot, I also got with the car in '89 a NOS dash pad which I also put in when I did the interior. The only modification I have done is I put a trac-lok in the diff since it was open, but I left the 3.50 gears. I've thought about 3.89s but the car is not a racer, its a cruiser, so I never bothered to change them and that 390, while not a monster, has more than enough torque to pull the 3.50s.

I love the over/under shotgun headlights on the Comet/Fairlaine, thats one of the reasons I like the Pontiac GTOs which are also really cool cars.
 
This was my first Cougar. Towed it home. Then soon the 351c ran pretty good.


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Sorry about the car tangent. I get on dirtbike tangents on the car forums too.
 
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