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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What year is this?

DPete

DPete

Husqvarna
A Class
Advertised as a 81'420, what year was the first plastic tank? Maybe they put a later tank & seat on an 81'husky auto.jpg
 
frame CR 1981/1982
rear shocks ohlins ITC 1983
front forks 1981 35 mm !
motor 1981 !420 auto !
front wheels 1981 !
tank ?
 
Talked to the owner ( nice guy) says 81' frame and engine, longer swing arm, Acerbis tank
 
The frame in the rear part has been deeply modified....
Automatic for sure....
A mix of different years, why ?
:banghead:....
 
Don't know the current owner got it that way, probably an attempt to trick it out like I used to do :D
 
agree about the frame, you can tell its 83 or 84 along with the itc shocks and tank...seat and side panel are aftermarket..
silencer looks like an old answer unit with a big gun sticker on it. they never made any swede husky parts.
someone added the older 35mm forks and smaller triples to it. definitely a hodge podge of parts, not someone trying to build the ideal "purpose" bike. if set up right probably still handles well.
 
DPete said:
Talked to the owner ( nice guy) says 81' frame and engine, longer swing arm, Acerbis tank
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thats the factory 84 acerbis tank..they made the husky tanks up into the 90s..the curved area above and behind the pegs gives away the 83-84 frame style.
 
Frame does not look modified to me, it looks like an 82 AMX with 83-84 ITC shocks and aftermarket sest and tank.
 
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