The damp is from the outside, coming in through the seams where the mastic has pulled away with age. From what you say, and given that you got the van cheap, I'd throw it away and start again. Alternatively, (no, not that I'd do it), you could take off the outside, having removed the staples, remove all of the damaged woodwork, ditto the roof, and rebuild.
Tim
November 2009
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