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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kellys ongoing goofy thread...

JPinNC said:
That is amazing -- I can't wrap my head around the craftsmanship on that car -- to think that he scratch built it! Great find.
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I have looked at it at least a half dozen times and it still makes me grin.
Old school metal/sheetmetal master journeyman with a love for his craft-
 
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Competition for the Husky Baja concept...
 
that last one is too cool. I had one of those 620 Dastun pickups. what a stupid simple truck that was. Beat the hell out of it for years and then gave it to a friend who did the same for many more years.
 
copy that its a model kit for sale on e-bay. and check the pic, its a stepside. never seen that truck in a step-side down here. best small truck ever. king cab long bed. what a bargain those were. reg cab long bed made great donors for 1/4 mile drag cars too with a SBC in them. great lines. i liked them.
 
Motosportz said:
that last one is too cool. I had one of those 620 Dastun pickups. what a stupid simple truck that was. Beat the hell out of it for years and then gave it to a friend who did the same for many more years.
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Great trucks, but in the North East they rotted to pieces in no time and the electrics would get wonky. I remember my buddy's truck.... when you stepped on the brakes, the dome light came on!
 
Norman Foley said:
Great trucks, but in the North East they rotted to pieces in no time and the electrics would get wonky. I remember my buddy's truck.... when you stepped on the brakes, the dome light came on!
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Too funny.
Are there vehicles that don't rot to pieces in the Great Northeast?
They started putting very caustic chemicals on the roads in OR a few years back. There must be a good budget for it, because the temperature doesn't even need to get down to freezing and the tell tale grain drill like tracks can be seen on the roads. That stuff will etch pits in aluminum and rust the underside of a car or truck in no time at all. Nasty $h!t. Hate it!
 
Xcuvator said:
Too funny.
Are there vehicles that don't rot to pieces in the Great Northeast?
They started putting very caustic chemicals on the roads in OR a few years back. There must be a good budget for it, because the temperature doesn't even need to get down to freezing and the tell tale grain drill like tracks can be seen on the roads. That stuff will etch pits in aluminum and rust the underside of a car or truck in no time at all. Nasty $h!t. Hate it!
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They use that here too, some kind of brine solution. I live about ten miles from the largest rock salt mine in the North East, so they use it liberally. The Seventies were the worst for cars and rust.... '73 up Chevy/GMC pick ups were the absolute worst. You'd see a '67-'72 model and the rocker panels would be gone, but a '73 up.... the whole truck would be going!
 
Norman Foley said:
They use that here too, some kind of brine solution. I live about ten miles from the largest rock salt mine in the North East, so they use it liberally. The Seventies were the worst for cars and rust.... '73 up Chevy/GMC pick ups were the absolute worst. You'd see a '67-'72 model and the rocker panels would be gone, but a '73 up.... the whole truck would be going!
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Now that you mention it, I remember those old Chevys going south here too if they lived at the Coast. Fords seem to do better.
 
just noticed something....that Baja Racer model has the same tank as my ol Maico did :doh: ...and yes that's the head on the seat- it was due for it's 15 min. head gasket change....:eek: :lol:

Baja:

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Ha-ha!

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