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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hope Town Reunion - July 13th 2013 in Simi Valley California - Report with pictures...

I moved the planing thread, to Reports, in case anyone else is interested.

Pictures of the bikes on the outside of the building, in no particular order:

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This one had a sign that said:
1970 Baja 500
1st overall
Bill Silverthorn and Gene Ferry(?)

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The building is owned by 2 brothers who seem like enthusiasts to me, to say the least!

They set up a 'museum' in the building, and here are some pictures of that, in no particular order

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suprize said:
was that Steve McQueen's ghost in the background???
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I would not be surprised... A whole lot of people where there, very important people from an earlier era.

I'll try to remember some of the names later, many were from Europe.
 
Okay, so I boned it and forgot my good camera. Glad you had a nice rig to get those great pics. However I did get this on my phone.....
 
As I said, a lot of interesting and important people from the past were there, here is Brad Lackey getting some type of an award. I believe the photographer may have been with Transworld MX, at least a Transworld MX pick up was in the parking lot..

There were all sorts of people there including David Aldana

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And I got to meet the key person that is putting together Dirty Old Times, here is a link to refresh your memory if anyone missed it. The link is to 3 video trailers:
http://www.dirtyoldtimes.com/DOT/FOOTAGE.html

They even gave me some posters! :thumbsup:

It is probably difficult to see, but Gunnar Lindstrom & Torsten Hallman are now involved in the project, so I got to spend time with them also.

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That is pretty much all I have, my focus was on a few other things that day, but did want to share with you what I did have. Thanks for viewing. :)

I am quite sure there will be professional coverage of the event somewhere on the internet eventually.
 
How did he pronounce his name? is it Robert or Robeh?? had a beery argument about this years ago....
 
Sensational pics, I cant believe how good some of those bikes look, you must have thought you had croaked and gone to the playground in the sky.....
 
suprize said:
How did he pronounce his name? is it Robert or Robeh?? had a beery argument about this years ago....
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I don't know. It was a group of people introducing each other just before the key person that was putting the Dirty Old Times documentary was about to interview him. I shook his hand, and he smiled.
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Sensational pics, I cant believe how good some of those bikes look, you must have thought you had croaked and gone to the playground in the sky.....
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:)
 
Joel Robert is from Norway. My girlfriend recognized him first and reminded me how to say thank you very much in Norwegian after he signed my Hopetown T shirt. I am looking forward to next year. Wish I knew what you look like Coffee. Would have been a pleasure to shake your hand.
 
Huskynoobee said:
Joel Robert is from Norway. My girlfriend recognized him first and reminded me how to say thank you very much in Norwegian after he signed my Hopetown T shirt. I am looking forward to next year. Wish I knew what you look like Coffee. Would have been a pleasure to shake your hand.
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I didn't even know they were selling / distributing Hopetown T shirts!

And I would have liked to meet you too. I was wearing a T-shirt that looked like this, and for a short time there was someone else from Cafe Husky there:

http://www.cafehusky.com/attachments/dsc_7072large-jpg.19201
 
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