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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

paint colors?? vintage color police?

Bigbill

Bigbill

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Ok I'm was a engineering lead tech. I was in fabrication, welding and building test equipment to test new products and old problems in product for new ideas.
I was in charge of painting, matching colors to make everything pop and look impressive and outstanding to everyone who sees my work.

I want to cut loose my color matching talents on one bike. I want to make one bike stand out. Is that ok? I won't have the vintage color police after me? Thoughts?
 
Yes you will, unfortunately you will have a few no matter what but who cares that's the Internet's for ya .
Lets see what you can come up with bill, You know Darty will be watching .
 
I picked out a blue metallic for the frame and swing arm.
A red metallic for the gas tank.
Using hi heat engine paint oil and gas resistant.
The '82 black air box and rear side plates and white fenders.
I was thinking the chrome sticky side tank panels cut to fit.
Completely black matte epoxy painted rims,spokes,hubs.
Gold rear sprocket and chain?
Fitting a long black seat and plastic tank from a 85/86 bike.
Front disc brake, rim and 500cc 87 bike.
 
if it's your bike mate, you have every right to paint it Hot Pink with daisies tastefully placed all over the tank if that's what makes you happy.

Who gives a rats arse what anyone else thinks!

of course, you will limit it's resale value and appeal if you make it a one off that pleases you, given that what you like may not appeal to everyone
 
There are plenty of garage queens with the correct colours, bolts, washers, stickers etc. Go for what you want and two fingers to the moaners.
 
I make the bikes original in most cases when I restore them. One bike I want a custom look. This one will get the 420 engine.
 
I like anything tastefully done, lots on very nice non-stock huskies in the world but also a lot of ugly ones, so just don't make it ugly!
 
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