My mother was a penny pincher. While other kids where riding Schwinn Phantoms, Columbias, Murrays and Huffys, I was riding a ...gasp....Baronia! It was sort of a West German Magna. True, the West Germans didn't know how to build a bike that fell apart, still it was a drab, inexpensive, unexciting, early department store bike. So for me, Huffy would have been a big step up.
Sorry no pics of me on a vintage bike and I can't ride for another 78 days due to a rotator cuff operation.