Both of these are leaps and bounds better than the huffy in the OP. I'd jump on either. (OR BOTH, and flip one for some extra cash). This is exactly the "Dingy fuji" I was talking about in my first post of the thread.


Just to capitalize on a teachable moment here for the used bike buying newbies out there, take a look at the fork. It's bent. This is something you can use to your advantage when haggling price.

Also, while this frame is lugged and not electroforged like a varsity, it does still have one piece cranks. These use a BB shell about the size of a soda can. This is a great clue as to the quality of vintage bike you're buying. Try to avoid one piece "american" cranks and bottom brackets. Not only do they use different pedal threading, they also use weird, ancient bearings, are easy to bend and weight a ton. There are shims to space them down to an english thread, but IME, old american frames are so lazily finished in the BB shell, with tubes protruding in and plates tacked on for ballast, that you'd have to just about ream the shell out to get the shim/adapter to work.