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Your Trek Hybrid is like a light, modern, midsize SUV. The Varsity is like a 1967 Chevy Biscayne...an impossibly heavy, bottom-of-the-line, under-powered, sloppy-"handling", drudge-mobile that looks like it should be fast (it's a fastback, just like a sports car), but is, in fact, slow and a chore to drive.
I bought an old Varsity in 1993 to fix up and tinker with instead of my main commuter. The Varsity was a pig. I cleaned and repacked the bearings in the wheels, bottom-bracket and head-tube, and ran new cables and cable-housings and it was still a pig.
You could probably pick up a slightly newer, much lighter steel road bike that would be more rewarding for not much more money.