The Cheroburban

[johnny quest]

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stumbled across this post from 2010 on JF. OP admits its a photoshop, but it got me thinkin, this wouldnt be *that* hard to pull off. front 2/3rds of a 4-door XJ, rear half of a 2-door XJ, add some elbow grease and a few late nights....presto, a Cheroburban.

[Automan2164]

I like this, a lot.

 

Rob

[Automan2164]

Gasp! Captain's seats in the second row and 3rd row seating!

Rob

[JeepcoMJ]

This might make me want a real jeep again...

[johnny quest]

wheelbase would probably be in the 118" range? I have no idea what the frames do on the XJ's, or if they would match up at all, but imagine the possibilities!

[mvusse]

Third row seat would be difficult without stretching it more. Or maybe a YJ or TJ rear seat between the rear fenders?

[JeepcoMJ]

meld the 2 door rear section from the A pillar back onto the 4 door front half, right behind the B pillar. The 4 door rear roof skin would need to be kept back to above the rear seat head area to blend the roofs, but this would let you use 2 door front door as the rear door by grafting it to a 4 door rear door section, and allow you to use 2 door door glass. that would be 9" longer than doing it using a 4 dooor front door length.

[Minuit]

:eek:  This is well done. Almost looks like it's real but I'm not sure on those rear doors.

[onlyinajeep726]

I like the idea of this concept.  The photoshop is pretty good except two very obvious things that the artist overlooked:

1. The double ended roof bar
2. The rear passenger tire is too far up

Observe:

 

[johnny quest]

the blades of grass next to the drivers door match as well

[yellaheep]

Definitely cool...... but having to make the innerds of those rear doors work sounds pretty involved.  The OEM glass and tracks have a slight curve to them, so ya can't just go out and cut new flat glass to put in there...... What's it cost to get custom tempered glass made with a bit of a curve?

 

I'm guessing one would have to take the inner structures of the rear doors (front half) and the 2 door doors (rear half) and graft them together since the 4dr striker/latch is much higher than where the 2dr one is.  Then skin the outter with the 2dr skin.

[JeepcoMJ]

Definitely cool...... but having to make the innerds of those rear doors work sounds pretty involved.  The OEM glass and tracks have a slight curve to them, so ya can't just go out and cut new flat glass to put in there...... What's it cost to get custom tempered glass made with a bit of a curve?

 

I'm guessing one would have to take the inner structures of the rear doors (front half) and the 2 door doors (rear half) and graft them together since the 4dr striker/latch is much higher than where the 2dr one is.  Then skin the outter with the 2dr skin.

not as hard as you think. 2 door front door would mate up to the 2 door back half (b pillar). Simply make sure you use the back of the door jamb from the 2 door. Then pull the skin off, use the front of the 4 door rear door to mount it, reskin it. You'd only need to make a custom piece of glass for the forward section of the rear doors, and (depending on if you do 2 door or 4 door length) use the forward guide channel off of the vent windows up front. Then you just use 2 door or 4 door front glass from an 84-96 xj. skin using 2 door skin, should turn out pretty well.

 

If you cut the 2 door at the A pillar and the 4 door at the back side of the B pillar, the main part will match up. You'd need to cut the roof skin back farther on the 4 door body to blend out the roof ribs, and the 4 door floor pan could happily go back to the "front" seats of the 2 door section, with some finaggling.

 

Really the worst thing I can think of would be to get rid of the taper in the floor, or make it less drastic, so the front and rear halves match up better.

 

I also don't think you could do this happily with stock rockers...you would need to plate the frame in front and behind of the blend seem between the two halves, and since it's a good assumption that you'd be starting with two worn out/not rust free xj's, there won't be any rockers anyways. I would personally use 2x4 or 2x6 rocker with ribs connecting it to the frame for structural integrity, to keep the center from bowing or flexing.

 

 

It might look goofy with longer rear side doors, though.

[johnny quest]

i would just use all 4 doors from the 4 door, and just rework the rear bottom corners using the 2-door doors. no fussing with the glass, just use the stock 4-door glass.

[yellaheep]

i would just use all 4 doors from the 4 door, and just rework the rear bottom corners using the 2-door doors. no fussing with the glass, just use the stock 4-door glass.

 

Won't work.  As stated above, the door strikers/latches are in different places.  The door opening at the back of the 2 door body is a different shape/angle than the door opening at the back of the 4 door.

 

 

[FrankTheDog]

Is the back of the 2dr doors the same as the back of the front doors on a 4dr?

If they are, take a 2 dr and pull the B pillars off of another 2dr with about a foot of sheetmetal behind it and graft them in where a 4dr front door would stop and trim the original B pillar back to the beginning of the window and weld steel panels in and create a sedan delivery.

I'd like to see somebody photochop that.