I was wondering if (all things being stock) anyone knows what the street legality difference would be between a wrangler style body with removable doors and a cherokee style body modified to have removable doors. As in if I was to mod the doors on my xj and remove all 4 and drive it down the road how is that any different than removing the doors on a wrangler and driving it down the road? Any ideas as I'm looking into start doing some body mod's in the near future and that being one of the many.

I'm not so sure I'd do it with a unibody vehicle. You've probably thought about that, but seems like it would take some reinforcement to make it work. I'm not sure how sound they'd be structurally without doors.

The CJ was designed for flexible/no doors.

Yah I've read alot of things posted by many people some saying that they took the doors off and the first time they hit the trails it flexed and couldn't get the doors to even go back on, and alot of other people have run them doorless and gone off road several times and never had a problem. So it seems a hit and miss with it but I'll soon put a cage inside and when I do that then I'll tie the cage into more points than just the floors. Just wondering for a current DD if there's any legal difference between a vehicle that comes from the factory with the ability to remove the doors and one that only needs slight modification to remove them.

I say just do it. To hell with the legalities. If you get pulled, you'll say it's a Jeep. They'll argue that it's not a factory Wrangler w/ the doors designed that way. You'll counter, but I used Jeep Wrangler parts, or something to that effect. lol... He/she'll stammer, and you've won the argument and you'll know it..

Now you may still get the ticket mind you, but at least you'll know! To really avoid any costs associated w/said ticket, just carry your doors in the back around town until everyone gets comfortable with you being doorless.

To avoid the possible taco effect on the trail, leave the doors on. At least until the cage goes in.. That probably has a lot to do with driving styles too ya know?

Hell, I'm doin' it this spring! C'mon Brother! lol

I'd rather not get pulled so on my way home I stopped and talked to the county sheriff's office and between 4 deputy's that were standing behind the counter none of them knew of any law requiring the doors to be on in TN. So if anyone else out there is googling jeep xj doorless and read this article in the state of tennessee you can run doorless on the streets as long as you have a rear facing mirror such as the one attached to the windshield, but it's probably a good idea to fab up a drivers side mirror to help with lane changes and safe driving. As far as running it on the trails I'm going to make some half doors to mount on the front while riding to help visibility and strength until I get the cage in.