• 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.

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Here is that 40 bike vintage auction in Illinois.

It's actually in Missouri just north of the Arkansas boarder and about mid-center, see Thayer, MO. I'Ve been thinking about going, but not sure where I would put more stuff, garage is already got too much stuff in it.
 
Yeah, been thinking about going but sometimes at an auction prices go lil higher than dealing with an individual one on one. Then again, I got to race the next day and that might be too much of a haul to get done in two days?
We shall see!
Maybe we can email the guy and should be an auction list?
 
I'd be in heaven to own that many husqvarnas.

I thought the rest of the world had most oh the vintage huskys
 
The pawn stars just purchased two husqvarna 390cc running bikes for $7k. It raised the bar for sure. Now what's the non runners worth?

Deals at auctions? Only if no one shows up.
 
i dont think pawn stars is going to change anything. i always thought the states had the most huskies??
 
I never seen that many husqvarnas till now on this forum in the states. We did have a husky dealer here one town away and another in Windsor locks and Stratford,ct. I really never seen any older running husqvarnas besides ours. I always felt like I was the only Japanese bike at a Harley gathering. The older riders knew the husky legend / history but the younger crowd doesn't. We always got weird looks from the younger crowd.
 
There must be lots of old husky hiding somewhere still?

Soon ill start going in search of for them. There has to still a lot of them within every dealer area.
 
they are out there. they seem to be in certain areas as well. oddly enough, i have found they are being kept in secret often, stashed in the back of a garage or warehouse. owners are sometimes tight lipped. im sometimes able to drag the info out of people, sometimes a person will come up to me after seeing me climb out of my truck put on old/new husky gear and roll a bike out of the back. many stares are given but sometimes i think thats just because im on a 2 stroke.
 
Guy I know has whole barn full of them. Trying sometime in my travels to see if he will let me in?
He used to be a dealer and as time went by, guess guys would come in asking for a part and he would vanish for while and come back to shop with it used.
Now if this is true, he has two levels of Husky's. Guess it was a lot of bike trade ins.
I did go on a lead in Indiana that was full of vintage motorcycles. I knocked on door and lady came. She said that they did have whole barn full and took me out to show me barn. She said after her husband passed. They had guy take them all to Florida for an auction. She still had a Montessa think like 340 and they would not part with it.
They still had rims, fenders and some old jap headlights and stuff in there.
 
a mate here in Victoria had nearly 50 at one stage but he had divested most of them by last year. they take a particular type of collector.
 
Just sitting idle these old husqvarnas reek history.

Sorry but when I get into a hobby it's well over 150% of my effort.
Live it, breathe it, HUSQVARNA.
 
My brother and I went to this auction yesterday. A lot of the bikes were very rough but still had a lot of good parts and sold cheap, many under $100. The few nice bikes like the 390 Auto didn't sell. Mt brother put in the high bid at $1000 but the reserve was $2200, a fair price but no body bought .

We bought 4 bikes (2 early 70's and 2 late 70's) that had 2 near perfect alloy tanks a nice steel tank and 3 nice exhaust pipes for under $400. After the auction the owner took us to his warehouse that must have ten times the amount of stuff that sold Saturday and we bought a few parts there. They plan to have another auction in the spring.

With the other Husky's we've bought lately it looks like we've made the switch from Pentons to Husqvarna:cheers:
 
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