• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Vintage racing pics

FabOneUp

FabOneUp

Husqvarna
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I looked for a thread on this and couldn't find one. I found modern racing pics, but nothing for vintage. If a thread is started and I am unaware, lemme know and I will move these.

I went to my family reunion and brought these pics back with me. My second cousin, Billy, did a lot of racing back in the day and I never knew it. He also did a 38,000 mile South America tour on a 1956 AJS Matchless 500 single. I have never heard these stories and spent one whole day with him after everyone left. He said he is going to write a book on the trip this winter. Next to my Dad, he is my new hero.

Anyway, here are a few of the pics I nabbed.

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This was a wheelie contest. Whoever did the most laps won! This was one of his friends in the pic. I have forgotten his name, but I will post it if I ever find out.
 
I know he is not on a Husky, but he is wearing a Husky T-shirt! If I understood him correctly the top pics are early TT races, but I may have misunderstood.
 
Looks like it may have been a early Scrambles race, i remember my older Brother raced these in the early 70's on a Honda 350SL Motosport, then
a Suzuki TM 400. Not sure when the started calling them Motocross races in this USA.

Husky John
 
wasnt much else happening in the great old USA so this would have been a big crowd puller. would have loved a $1 from everyone there!! my bet is its a suzuki TM judging by the pipe but could have been a CR honda greenback
 
Yeah, I hate it when the valve head melts off and bounces between the compression dome and piston top a few times. I got an engine like that cheap because of that but it gave me a reason to go thru the bottom end to remove the piston fragments and practice welding aluminum on the head:)
 
jimspac said:
Yeah, I hate it when the valve head melts off and bounces between the compression dome and piston top a few times. I got an engine like that cheap because of that but it gave me a reason to go thru the bottom end to remove the piston fragments and practice welding aluminum on the head:)
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How did that weld job go? What process and what metal?
 
This was the start of a crash he did while flat track racing. The pic above of him standing with a beer was right after this crash, so he came out of it alright.:)
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FabOneUp said:
How did that weld job go? What process and what metal?
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Have not started yet. Just got a good mig welder for aluminum Eastwood 175 with spool welder for aluminum and a bottle of pure argon. The seasoned weldor I work with confirmed I was on the right track. The wire is 4043 .030 wire. He also told me argon is used in place of helium now for aluminum. More stabilty. The head is currently in an engine mockup for my TT500 developement project
 
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