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Dave,
Not a bad choice, but you should be aware that at this age RVs need some maintenance.
I hope you looked at the date codes on the tires. Please believe the 8 year life. I don't care how good the tread looks, those and all the other rubber parts will age out on calendar alone.....
By all the rubber parts, I do mean all the rubber parts. Belts will break and just leave you hanging. But Brake lines (the rubber sections) and fuel hoses are both a real danger. The best part about those two is that you should flush the old fluid now if it hasn't been and the last couple of years because it absorbs water that both causes corrosion and lowers the boiling point. Fuel is easy to do but you may have to drop the tank.
If the coolant has not bee replaced, that needs to happen too. It is still anti-freeze, but the corrosion inhibitors are depleted and so you may loose the waterpump, the heater core and the radiator all at once.
Tires will cost you a chunk, but the rest of the stuff you can do on your own and it is not all that expensive. (And it is even cheaper if you do it now and not after things start failing.)
Does this old guy know what he is babbling about? Maybe. We are still using our 1976 Cayo MotorVator and a year ago I acquired a 1974 GMC. I have done all this to both.
Frank
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