SAVINGA WHALE
You have $45,000 to spend — do you buy a new truck or a pristine riverfront lot in Maine, complete with an ancient but livable single-wide trailer? For Chris France of Laurel, Md., owning a Maine “camp” had been a lifelong dream so he passed on the truck. As ever, there’s a catch. He keeps an 18-ft. Star-craft motorboat in Maine, making a tow rig a necessity. Could he find the perfect camp hauler within his $3000 budget?
Chris had been longing for another 1986 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon like he’d driven in college, and he thought another one would perfectly meet his needs again.
“I was sorry to let it go — I probably loved it more than any car I’ve owned since,” Chris says wistfully. He began searching in earnest
