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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1968 MF 250 Paint

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Pete Clark

Husqvarna
B Class
I bought an MF model 250 new in 1969 as a 'NEW HOLDOVER". I rode it a couple years then was given a 400 Cross in 1970. My wife found the oringinal 250 and presented it to me as a birthday gift 3 years ago. I sent the tank to a "professional restorer" to have tankslapper dents taken out, new chrome, paint and decals. Chrome is okay, decal is correct but boy is the paint wrong.
After a 2 1/2 year wait, and a premium price, I have what I term a raspberry colored tank not the red that I recall. I do recall a 360, I think, of that era that was near this color Now I know I'm forgetful but not that bad. Can anyone provide the correct paint number(s). I would greatly appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance.:banghead: :censored:
 
Husqvarna Silver Paint Formula




Dupont ChromaBase B/C
Car: Chrysler Import
Code: H84 Yr: 88 Alt: 1
Color: Grace Silver Met B/C

Tinting Guide Mix Size: Quart
8133 Med Coarse Al 128,5
818J Bright Adjust 235,8
811J Med Aluminium 280,4
802J LS White 284,7
150K B/C balancer 772,0
175K Binder 904,6











Husqvarna RED Paint Formula




Dupont Chromabase B/C
Car: BMW
Code: 274 Yr: 1993
Color: Mugello Red

Tinting Guide Mix Size: Quart
850J. Brilliant Red 75,3
852J Orange 106,8
853J HS White 125-9
806J HS Black 128,6
150K B/C Balancer 355,0
175K Binder 446,3
 
tommie d;34827 said:
Husqvarna Silver Paint Formula




Dupont ChromaBase B/C
Car: Chrysler Import
Code: H84 Yr: 88 Alt: 1
Color: Grace Silver Met B/C

Tinting Guide Mix Size: Quart
8133 Med Coarse Al 128,5
818J Bright Adjust 235,8
811J Med Aluminium 280,4
802J LS White 284,7
150K B/C balancer 772,0
175K Binder 904,6











Husqvarna RED Paint Formula




Dupont Chromabase B/C
Car: BMW
Code: 274 Yr: 1993
Color: Mugello Red

Tinting Guide Mix Size: Quart
850J. Brilliant Red 75,3
852J Orange 106,8
853J HS White 125-9
806J HS Black 128,6
150K B/C Balancer 355,0
175K Binder 446,3
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Tommie... thanks for posting this.... I am going to make a new sticky thread in the vintage tech ref sections with your information ... before I put it in there, do you have the same information for the Maroon Burgundy color, the green auto , the black 390 and the 125 yellow?

T
 
T,
I snaged those off a UK web site last night, But I do have most all Husky paint codes up too 82 or so. no codes for the 83 white and up. problem is, I moved a while back and there in a box somewhere in my very full storage unit and have not had the time to find everything, but when I do we will get them posted.
 
Thank you tommie d and HuskyT. I know this will come up again.
I knew this brain trust went wide and deep. Thanks again

Pete
 
Too bad the pictures did not show up, I just copied and pasted that part of the page. It had a very nice pic of a red gas tank and one of the silver frame.
 
The frame silver is likely for all years of silver frame and the CR red should be correct back to the first as well. Check restorations at www.vintagehusky.com John restores as correct as anyone else I know.
 
Mark Harris said:
Hi guys would these codes be correct for a 1970 360 cross ? Thanks
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Are you sure the 360 Cross is a 1970? The 1970 400 Cross superceded the 360Cross. and I believe the 1970 360 was a Sportsman with the bolton subframe and long rear fender loop.. I had a 1969 360 Sportsman that had the lights removed and a racing tank on it that was sold to me as a 250. I got that when I was 14 in 1974. When I found it was a 360, I could not ride it in the Jr enduros or NESC MX because of 16yr age requirement to ride the Open class
 
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