This comes up on and off on the forum. If someone was going to really do the expedition thing, then they would -just as these people did - start from a clean baseline. And not by investing 12k in a vehicle that they neither know well enough to maintain themselves, nor is factory-spec enough for them to just walk into a MrT anywhere in the world.
Its the same problem all of these expedition prep'd trucks have in this country.
Remember the chap from NZ who had a 95 with thr bed platform in the back? Lovely truck, *very* keen price, ended up having to ask his mum to put on ebay bit by bit after 8 months of trying to sell it. That was pretty clean too. Cleaner than this one ? Maybe not. But very clean and also pretty stock.
Remember 'chuck' being sold at a huge loss at 22k? Nina overland had that sitting with them for at least a year. No idea where that ended up. A very well kept manual 80gx. With every bell to boot.
So, fundamentally the pitch really needs to be a case of 'started the work', buy this truck and keep working on it. Expect huge investment in showing people it, doccumenting the what and why of where and how.... i.e own the sale.
@SpinDrift said it well i think. The cost of a journey prep should match the journey itself. If you are going to put 8k of bits on the truck, make sure you recover the value of 8k over the trips. So when it comes to the sale, you shouldnt expect anything back from.it.
If you really do, then hang onto the bits that came off. So you can put them back on. And try your luck on ebay for the 8k worth of bits.
Then what
@Chris said up there is spot on too. Horses for courses. Like the couple who drove a bedford rascal with a rooftop tent, around the world. You will not, however catch me on a 800cc petrol 4cyl matchbox. Suspect its a sentiment most on the forum would share
So... this 95... i think is a £4k truck
and wont lose much value as some of the bits are stripped back.