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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

vin #

dumpbear

dumpbear

Husqvarna
AA Class
hello everyone i bought a couple of bikes from a guy this summer they were his dad's.he said his dad was a big collector of husky's and this guy seem'ed pretty knowledgeable him self. one of the bikes has a frame# of 74x361 he told me the guy his dad bought it from told his dad that it was kent howerton's factory race bike.it is definitely different it has gusset's welded in places that none of my other huskys have. the top of the frame were the seat sit's is bent upward not flat like all the rest it has lay down rear shock's if anyone knows anything about it i would greatly appreciate it thank's
 
On a different website is a pictorial of Chuck Sun's factory Husqvarna that was actually a prototype 430 in 1979. The frame number on that bike starts with HMUL wich is a Swedish abbreviation for Husqvarna Research Laboratory. Last I knew Kent Howerton still owns his 1976 500 championship 360 but I can not speak to any other factory bikes he rode. Also works Husqvarnas were typically pre production prototypes as they utilized GP racing for developement testing
 
jimspac said:
On a different website is a pictorial of Chuck Sun's factory Husqvarna that was actually a prototype 430 in 1979. The frame number on that bike starts with HMUL wich is a Swedish abbreviation for Husqvarna Research Laboratory. Last I knew Kent Howerton still owns his 1976 500 championship 360 but I can not speak to any other factory bikes he rode. Also works Husqvarnas were typically pre production prototypes as they utilized GP racing for developement testing
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I think this bike is a 74 or 75 the front fender mount's like a 75 not like my 76cr or my 77wr.
 
Is the frame a modified MK or ML ? Fenders found on old bikes does not mean original. ML frames started with the GP models in 1975
 
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