Ok, maybe i'm nuts, but I've got a pretty complete 83 wagoneer parts jeep (Title in hand) sitting in the yard up at the camp. The body is pretty well shot, but the frame, linkage, and everything else is great. 360 doesn't run but it is a qaudratrac. Paid 375 for it so the clean tail light housings and the dome light housing x2 that was packed into it pretty much cover the price. I plan on stripping the jeep down as much as possible so when someone decides to back into me I'll have doors/bumpers tail lights/etc to replace. Not to mention all the glass is there and good. When I'm done I'll pretty much have a rusted out body, and a really clean frame.
So here's the thought:
Since I'll have nothing but frame and chassis components left, I was thinking of dropping in a 350 and mate it to the 727 and quadratrac.
buy a cj tub (or a worn out cj) and stretch it to fit on the wagoneer frame, and make it something like a scrambler or cj-8...only longer.
Does anyone know if this will even work? I know I"ll need new body mounts and stretch the tub, but are the dimensions even close enough, side to side, to fit a wagoneer frame?