This one is in the Lynchburg VA area, I've seen it before and it is very nicely done.

 

That red one looks so long.

 

Too true. It would look better with a pair of front doors mounted suicide style on the rears.

 

SICK!!!!!!

 

I thought the 4 door was sick but sing me up for a dually!

 

I'm sure you could do much better....

 

JC Whitney used to sell a kit that turned small p/u into duallies...

They had a Ranger, S-10 and some of the Jap models. Someone on CC used the S-10 kit and did a Comanche. He was pretty sure that one pictured used the same kit. There is an old thread on CC about it.

 

I have one just about like this in my shop under const. Looks like the builder used the rear cherokee door and the rear cherokee post where I am keeping the cherokee rear door upper post and the comanche rear lower post and filling in the XJ back door with a lower corner of a front door - squared out. I started with rust free 2001 four door XJ and an Comanche short bed and it will have "Comanche Crew" on the front door. It is about 80% complete and I think will look a little more factory than this one. A lot of work for sure - will post pix if anyone is interested. Jeep should have built it - Britt is! Thanx Britt - in Southern Illinois

 

I have a similar 4 door "Comanche Crew" XJ/MJ in my shop about 75% complete. I used a 2001 XJ and an 87 MJ shortbed. The back door on mine is squared out at the bottom unlike this one as I used the Cherokee post from the rear door latch up and the Comanche post from the door latch down. Then I used the lower rear corner of the Comanche front door to fill in the Cherokee rear door wheel well opening. The upper Cherokee post leans forward and the Comanche upper post leans rearward so there was a 3" wide wedge that was filled with flat sheet metal and the plastic Comanche vent cover is going to stay. 85% of the metal work is completed and the mechanical is about finished as well - body work is well along too. The driveshaft is still one piece but is now about 73" long and I used the Cherokee plastic gas tank mounted behind the rear axle. It's gotta ride well with that 43" stretched wheel base! Can post pix if anyone is interested. A pretty tough project to join two like unibody frames together and fabricate / weld / reinforce / fill all the sheet metal junctions but its been fun - Jeep should have built it but the Dakota got in the way!

 

Sounds cool should start a build thread

 

I can definitely respect the time and effort put into those, but they look like dog**** to me personally.

 

I actually had the pleasure to talk with the owner of the one in the original post. Im out washing up at work and i see this gorgeous truck pulling into our shop entrance and i come walking up to introduce myself and he already knows what im coming up for. Well the story behind his build is he wanted a comanche but he needed room for his family so he took a 96 xj and a comanche and put it together almost exactly as described above. He took about 2 feet of frame and extended it under the xj and it into frame rail where he boxed it in and added another crossmember. As for the rear window he kept about 4 inches of the MJ cab because the lines would flow. The guys was in a hurry he had to get his kid to practice but told me if i ever wanted to build another to get in touch and he would help me out. He said he has put 1800lbs in the bed and not had it fold but it wasnt built for the trail. Heres a few more pics i snapped.

 

I don't like it, but he did a damn good job.

 

Being a owner of a Mj, I think It is cool!!

 

that is bad ***