I picked up a pretty clean 99 V-10 Ram 2500 2wd last year.
here it is overflowing off the trailer when I brought it home.
It's original paint and has a fairly clean interior.
I got it fairly cheap knowing that it had coolant in the oil.
I bought a low mileage 97 V-10 engine and swapped it in.
The truck runs great and for now it will be my tow vehicle even though the gas mileage sucks.
It's strictly a tow vehicle for my trailers so I can live with the crappy gas mileage for now.
I just picked up a 98 Ram 2500 Cummins truck cheap ($1,000), but the body is crap.
It's beat up and really rusty.
The plan is that in some point in the future I'll swap all the Cummins stuff into the V-10 truck.