To keep my story brief... I am going to be moving across the country. Honestly, I don't know much about cars, and what I do know is about Mercedes diesels...

However, I am sure there are some of you who have been around a long time and may be able to help me out.

As mentioned, I am moving across the country. I had the wild idea that rather than rent a moving truck, I could buy an old RV and throw all my junk in there and then sell it when I get where I am going.

My price range is limited to about $2000, so I have been looking at old motor homes. I found a 1976 class C motorhome with a ford 460 engine, with 55,000 miles on it.

Now to me, 55,000 seems like not many miles, especially for a motor home, but as mentioned I know nothing about ford engines of the 1970's.

I owned an early 80's mercury that blew a freeze plug on the freeway and proceded to dump all of the oil out before seizing up, all within about 10 seconds. I found out later that was a common for that engine at about the milage I had reached (70,000 or something). I am wondering if I am in for the same type of quality control on a 70's ford truck engine (I know, probably apples and oranges)

Long story short, any comments on 1970's ford truck engines?

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