I've been considering getting a van for the family. Naturally my thought was to grab a Dodge... being a Mopar man. Everything I'm finding is well above 2k... even for an old one (to drop a Cummins in XD). Really, for anything not rotting away, it's more up in the 3500-5000 category.
I know a few years ago when I had considered a diesel van conversion, I was finding them all over for 1-2k. I passed a very nice conversion van for 2500.
Is everyone suddenly after vans or something? Planning ahead for when the economy utterly folds? Maybe a spot picked out, "down by the river"?