Great pic's and I like all of you guys ideas, you certainly know how to do it up.
What concerns me though is few vehicles are really designed for longevity. If you need the hauler for distance road trips.
Typically by the time you hit 150K miles she's due for rebuilds. Motor, tranny, differential, front suspension/steering components. As you work through some of this, (over a period of time of course) then the damn electrical gremlins begin to surface. Mostly if the vehicle is an older model.
If you come accross a newer model with heavy miles on it, you shouldn't have the gremlin issues, but you have to question what kind of maintenance it got?
I recently looked at a 2008, 3/4 ton Ford van with 125,000 miles, and in nice condition. Dealer listed price was $10,000. It got my interest but then I began thinking on it, the van was pushed 20,000 miles per year, how many oil changes did it get? And then I wasn't comfortable unless I could see a service record. My old F250 has me very spoiled with her 300ci-6 engine that only has 7 moving internal parts (kidding of course).
The used vehicle market is saturated with heavily used, abused and under-serviced models.