First post, I just joined up. Just picked up a 70 250 Cross. Every thing seems to be there but it looks like its been sitting outside for years. Already ordered numbers plates ,rear fender, seat foam & cover, cables & throttle from Vintage Husky. I'm sure I'll have a few questions as I go along, but my first one is paint for the frame and tank. I've come real close to both colors by just comparing spray paint in the hardware stores, but its hard to tell because the paint on the bike is so faded. So does anyone know of some matching paint you can buy or should I do like my last restoration and have a auto paint shop try to match it ?
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
frame paint for a 70
- Thread starter jbrichey
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Ron
Husqvarna
AA Class
Just did mine with a color I found in a Husky news letter:
Dupont Chroma Base B/C
Chrysler Import Code: H84
color: Grace Silver
Very nice color. I used PPG 2 stage base coat/clear coat epoxy.
Still working on the motor, hopefully I have it all together in the next
month or so.
Ron
Dupont Chroma Base B/C
Chrysler Import Code: H84
color: Grace Silver
Very nice color. I used PPG 2 stage base coat/clear coat epoxy.
Still working on the motor, hopefully I have it all together in the next
month or so.
Ron
