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Some good advice from Magnolia...

..also, check, and double check, for damp/water ingress...and check up as much as you can on it's payload/axle loadings (..once loaded with "accessories" and clobber, a good many coachbuilt MHs are near or over their GVW or rear axle loading (or both!).

If buying from a dealer, if possible I'd try to buy from one reasonably close to you (or at least somewhere you can easily get back to) because things will go wrong and if the dealer is at the other end of the country that can magnify the inconvenience.(but obviously don't just buy from some Arthur Daley type, just coz he'd 'round the corner)...

Don't get to hung up on the *base vehicles, as long as it's not a lemon and checks out, they all do pretty much what they are supposed to...The layout and usability of the conversion is far more important. 

(*On early Fiat X250s, check for reverse gear judder(test by reversing up a slope), I'd like to think they'd all be fixed/sorted  by now but there are probably still some, little used, un-mod'ed ones out there.)