I once bought a 2000 Ford Econoline 250 in 2010 for $1500. It had the 5.4 V8, a partition, a nice center console desk complete with fold out clipboard, and a 7500 lb trailer hitch. 170k miles on the dial, but it under recorded massively during the 32k I put on the dial (recorded as 51k by my GPS unit). It was my market truck.
I dropped off about 150lbs of copper scrap with once with my merchandise still inside and the "big scale" weighed me in at a touch over 10k (GVWR 8600).
After the 50k overweight miles and about a year, the tranny dropped 4th gear and the high speed turning ****** the oil, and I found out (ha!) that Ford had invented the "idiot gauge" - an idiot light for oil pressure in the shape and appearance of an oil pressure gauge. So I thought I was having minor oil pressure problems when in fact the engine was starving. Seized engine. But seriously, for $2200 you can buy a good toe vehicle with all the equipment.