Or if you're set on a landy, buy a low mileage Disco Series I. It's well in you budget, has the lockable CDL, and you'll have enough reserve money to put a new suspension, good A/t or M/t's under it, and a full new maintenance regime.
Personally I'd look for a 98 or 99 DI, add an RTE 2" lift, pull the swaybars, and put on 31 or 32 M/T's. Then do all maintenace, buy spare fluids, filters, hoses, and belts. Add foglights, a cheap roofrack, and put all spares in pelican boxes. You'd still have enough in your budget for a roof top tent, or a nice basecamp tent that you could throw on the rack.
That would max your budget, but reliability would be ggo, and best of all, you'd still be in a Rover.
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