Looks like the perfect ranch vehicle to me! AC, cloth and nothing else. Is that carpet (hard to tell on my crappy, dust-covered screen
)? If so, ditch it for rubber then you can just hose it out.
They are reliable as heck but it has always amazed me at how well they hold their value. I suppose, like you said, it's the lift-and-beat-on crowd that keeps the prices high.