So I ended up buying a chev 2500, cant remember the year. Lets see if I can post pics without my tablet exploding.
5.0l etc etc… pretty crappy and plasticky and thirsty but im working on an organic farm this summer and also travelling so this beats paying rent.
Ive got a rudimentary kitchen with a manual pump sink, a propane stove, a hotplate and a couple small appliances. Its adequate for basic cooking. The 3 gallon black tank is a pressurized solar shower and the bucket is the shitter. Walls and ceiling are insulated and covered in hardboard. Cheap and cheerful. The Restore sold me a pack of laminate flooring for $1 so I threw together an jnsulated floor panel that sits on top of the stock rubber mat. I want to be able to get it back to stock for resale in a year or 2.
A double bed runs across the back with a shelf above the foot end for stuff and storage underneath for more stuff and my bike (which is outside ghe van in the pic but it tucks in neatly). I sleep slightly diagonal and have tons of space. Theres also a fire safe mounted under there.
The $5 ikea shoe racks hold lots of necessities. I stuff dirty laundry into the door behind it.
The center console is actually a fridge inside an insulated box. I get power for this snd other small electtonics from a 33mah deep cycle battery that I recharge every other day. The swivel base on the passenger seat is awesome - its comfy for kickin back and the van feels pretty big inside from that seat.
Overall its pretty comfy. I use my iphone as a hotspot for web browsing on the tablet, and a 2tb wifi external drive is filled with hundreds of movies and documentsries n shit. Theres an awnjng system too. So for summertime when the livings easy, its got just about everything I need.