1 -February 3, 2018. The day we bought her.

We knew we wanted a Toyota RV. They were made in the 80's and 90's. We love the idea of the reliability of a Toyota truck. Plus, there's the fact that we don't have a lot of money. Certainly not enough to afford a newer vehicle. Since these Toyota RV's are getting up there in age, we were on the lookout for something we could afford.Unfortunately, these RV's are not as common as they once were. We scoured Craigslist and found one on the other side of FL, the Gulf coast. We went to look and ended up buying it for $5K, cash. These RV's sell very quickly and we considered ourselves lucky to get it. It only had 66K original miles on it. The low mileage is good AND bad. That means it likely sat, unused for years(?). Any vehicle that sits for that long is pretty much guaranteed to have problems with the fuel system, sun deterioration and general deterioration of a lot of the rubber parts of the engine and chassis. Not to mention, funky smells and water damage. We were aware of the possible issues. The seller had just replaced the fuel tank and alternator a week ago. So that was a good start.
The one thing that worked out to be on our side? The RV had an open recall by Toyota from the 1990's. Yep, we checked the VIN and sure enough this truck had never been repaired. The head gasket had a recall which means that Toyota had to do the rather extensive repair/replacement completely at their expense.
Go to https://www.toyota.com/recall to see if your RV has a recall - you'll need your VIN.
To us, it meant that while they had the engine torn apart, they could:
A. Inspect it thoroughly
B. Make other repairs and/or replace parts as necessary
Below is a screenshot of what our recall looked like on-line:

This could be done by a Toyota dealer with, hopefully, minimal extra cost in labor for us.
My parents place is over on the Gulf coast in St. Pete Beach. This is where we drove it after we bought it since St. Augustine was too far to drive with this sort of recall. Plus, it desperately needed 6 new tires. When I say "we" drove it, I mean Adam drove it. I was too scared :)

The first stop was for gas on the way to my parents' place in St. Pete:

We finally got it safely to St. Pete. The tires were very un-safe, and they were the next order of business: