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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
250-500cc 1975 250 gp
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ktmhusq;47765 said:
Welcome to CafeHusky, ktmhusq
I don't have an answer to your question, but since it's a 1975 maybe someone in the vintage forum can answer it?
My first thought was Gran Prix, as in that's the name of the model
I don't know...WoodsChick
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Husqvarna
AA Class
1975 Husqvarna 250 CR GP Mikola Replica
Peter Andrews - Australia
The 1975 CR 250 parts were purchased in June 1998 as a basket case advertised in a motor cycle trading magazine. The restoration of this 250 began in July of 2004 when the frame, swing arm and various brackets were sent to be bead blasted and the parts powder coated, the color I used was Dulux bright silver as the closest color to the original, there were a few brackets that were missing and I manufactured the missing brackets which were painted along with the frame. I used the original Bufo bolts and nuts which have been re-plated and as well I used button head stainless steel screws for the engine side covers, reed valve assembly and chain guard. The motor internals and gears were in excellent condition with very little wear apparent to any of the parts although a couple of the gears were worn badly which I replaced with NOS parts from Husky Parts Australia who also supplied the correct cables, I also replaced all the bearings and seals. I sourced two new pistons from the Husky Club Newsletter advertisement section and purchased them, as well as a new rod kit from Euro Rods, the ports were polished and aligned with cases and the motor was assembled and painted with Hi temp Satin black paint. The forks legs were re-chromed by Hard Chrome Services in South Australia, the correct tank, bars, Bing carburetor and controls were sourced at various swap meets and the tank painted by Husky Imports. I used a Uni Filter pro comp 2 air filter and I tracked down two of the correct large gold Mikkola replica decal one in pristine condition and the other slightly used but still in Minnesota for the air box cover. The seat cover and decals were sourced from Bultaco parts (MXM), Spoked Wheel repairs laced the Akront yellow label rims with stainless steel spokes. The Husky Club, supplied the NOS gas tank cap, the kill switch and the manuals for the 1975 250 CR. Click photo for bigger picture
Hopefully that answers your question.
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