extended cab Comanche

[mikekaz1]

 

This is ideal IMO. All the dimensions come out really nice and it seems factory put together. Plus the most useful storage space & more leg room.

 

well this is just a 2 door Cherokee with a black line drawn behind the "cab" to imitate a bed gap, and has the upper window edited out.  thus why the bed looks tiny. I do like the concept of using the 2 door rear vent window in the back tho, similar to the ranger and s10s of the day.  all in all I really like the look of the black "2door" Comanche posted above. with the factory cab back and long doors. I wish they based them on that form the factory, although in hindsight I'm glad they didn't because the doors in general are that much harder to find.

[johnj92131]

Mikekaz1,

 

Thanks for the explaining the short bed truck above.  Now when I look at it, I see the Cherokee roof line. 

[Pete M]

that blue truck is a digitally modified MJ.  I promise. :D

[Doc.]

Longer than an XJ too.

[mikekaz1]

hm... i swore i read somewhere they were all photoshops based on the 2 door,   owell in any event, doesn't really matter

[Pete M]

that Comanche badge shows real dedication to the photoshopping illusion :D

 

mostly though, the owner is a member here. :yes:

[mikekaz1]

Ah knew you had to have some trick up your sleeve

[Mj4life]

There has been one person that has definitely did a extended cab mj but I believe he's not on this site. He used a xj front end and used the mj rear. He welded them together and made it stronger.

[Eagle]

Went looking for images of extended cab MJs outside of this forum, and I stumbled across an article that confirms my opinion that Jeep's failure to offer an extended cab was a bone-headed move that spelled doom for the Comanche line.

 

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/xj-day-capsule-jeep-commanche/

[Eagle]

I found this:

 

 

Looks like the bed is a long bed? That makes it too long, IMHO. My late wife was from Chile. All over South America, 4-door pickups are very popular, in the small pickup lines. We rented one once for a ten-day trip around the lakes region of Chile, a few hundred miles south of Santiago. They're not "beautiful" by any stretch of the imagination, but they're also not insanely ugly, and they're not so long that you need a CDL to drive them. The box is typically about a 5-foot box -- even shorter than an MJ shortbed. Not great for hauling huge loads, but most people never use a box to capacity anyway.

 

Another one:

 

 

 

And then I found this:

 

[HOrnbrod]

I found this

 

I wish you hadn't.............

 

:yes:

[Eagle]

Here's what the red one might look like with a shorter box:

 

[mikekaz1]

 

 

i give huge respect to whoever did this, as they did a fantastic job. i like the double cab long bed work truck idea but i just don't get the feel from it.. i think its length to height proportions are just off,  if they put a nice 2 or 3 in lift and say 31's on this i think its overall appearance would skyrocket.   just like how there are stock height differences between a 1500 and 3500, i think this truck is missing that aspect. 

 

 

here's my crude attempt at making it higher

 

i also feel like another visual issue is the back of the rear door, as the angles conflict greatly. i don't have the photoshop skills to do it, but i feel like if you mirrored the rear window, (swapped window positions) since the main window is almost a perfect square you would match the rear angle and the small window would then come alot closer to the front window angle also.

[gogmorgo]

 

i also feel like another visual issue is the back of the rear door, as the angles conflict greatly. i don't have the photoshop skills to do it, but i feel like if you mirrored the rear window, (swapped window positions) since the main window is almost a perfect square you would match the rear angle and the small window would then come alot closer to the front window angle also.

This is my concern as well, the rear windows just look awkward. I'm not sure what exactly your proposed solution is (take the small pane, flip it horizontally and put it in front of the window in the rear door?) or how it would look. But I'm wondering about just putting the main section of the front door's window in there and leaving it like that. I'm almost inspired to get photoshop just to mess around with this stuff... In real life, if tge leading edges of the two windows match, it should be easy to combine the two doors.

 

I also like the longer 2-door XJ look as above. Best looking example I've seen so far for an extended cab.

[mikekaz1]

oooooorrrrrr use a 2 door main window and frame. which would be ~6" longer window and thus no need to use the angled vent window at all! 

[Eagle]

I'm almost inspired to get photoshop just to mess around with this stuff... In real life, if tge leading edges of the two windows match, it should be easy to combine the two doors.

You don't need Photoshop. It's probably easier in Photoshop, if you know how to use it (which I don't), but I did my shortened version using good old Microsoft Paint (the version that was bundled with Windows XP)

[gogmorgo]

oooooorrrrrr use a 2 door main window and frame. which would be ~6" longer window and thus no need to use the angled vent window at all!

That right there might be the winner!

 

You don't need Photoshop. It's probably easier in Photoshop, if you know how to use it (which I don't), but I did my shortened version using good old Microsoft Paint (the version that was bundled with Windows XP)

Been there, done that. It works, but it's not very polished.

[mikekaz1]

 

oooooorrrrrr use a 2 door main window and frame. which would be ~6" longer window and thus no need to use the angled vent window at all!

That right there might be the winner!

Yeah I had a little bit of an forhead slap moment and thought to my self "doh why has nobody thought of this"

[johnj92131]

 

 

oooooorrrrrr use a 2 door main window and frame. which would be ~6" longer window and thus no need to use the angled vent window at all!

That right there might be the winner!

Yeah I had a little bit of an forhead slap moment and thought to my self "doh why has nobody thought of this"

 

 

Did you read Doc's first post that started this thread?

 

Doc wants to cut the Comanche in half.  Extend it just enough to use the doors from a 2 door XJ.  Bingo!!   2 door extended cab Comanche.  Keep stock bed, either 6 ft or 7 ft.

[Jackrabbit41]

http://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/5380883874.html

 

Here's one for sale

[mikekaz1]

http://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/5380883874.html

 

Here's one for sale

noooooooo

[mikekaz1]

 

 

 

 

 

oooooorrrrrr use a 2 door main window and frame. which would be ~6" longer window and thus no need to use the angled vent window at all!

Did you read Doc's first post that started this thread?

 

Doc wants to cut the Comanche in half.  Extend it just enough to use the doors from a 2 door XJ.  Bingo!!   2 door extended cab Comanche.  Keep stock bed, either 6 ft or 7 ft.

 

 

 

 

not what I was getting to, I was talking about for a 4 door chassis, use a 4 door front door (mj factory door) and a 2 door for a rear door minus the front vent window. as that would theoretically solve the awkward rear door body line and stationary  1/4 window

[johnj92131]

 

 

 

not what I was getting to, I was talking about for a 4 door chassis, use a 4 door front door (mj factory door) and a 2 door for a rear door minus the front vent window. as that would theoretically solve the awkward rear door body line and stationary  1/4 window

 

 

Got it.  But I do have to ask what the wheelbase would be on a 4 door version of the Comanche?  Something over 140 inches?  What would the turning circle be?  60 feet or more?  And how much real weight could the unibody structure support?

[mikekaz1]

well the red one pictured IS a real vehicle, not Photoshop. I'm not sure what reinforcements they made to the body, but apparently it was possible.