turtle deck on a touring?

Has anybody put a turtle deck on the back of a cut off touring car? I have a chance to buy a 24 T touring front half and a buddy has a 23 turtle deck. I have been looking up roadster bodies and they look alot different at the back than the cut off touring. Has anybody done this?

 

put it on the back of the touring car and have a 4 dr roadster

 

I've never seen it. When you use the front half its straight across not contoured like the back half. I think it would look kinda odd. Don't most people do a track roadster with the front half of the touring and mount a fuel tank behind(instead of the turtle deck)? Or I'm way off,always a possibility! Normal Norman

 

I have never seen it done, but it certainly could be. Problem is though that the back of a touring front half has the square edges of the door jambs and such, and stock the seat back only goes about 2/3 of the way down leaving it open at the bottom. Without some serious work it'd be pretty ugly... The up side though is the tops of the door jambs line up almost perfectly with the bed rails of a "T" or "A" pickup box. Look at Tommy Ivo's car or Norm Grabowski's car and you will see where the use of a shortened pickup bed came from. Both are touring front halfs.

 

Usually a modified uses the front half of a '26 '27 "T" touring body. The earliest "T-Buckets" used a '17 - '25 front half.

 

Yeah, after looking at it now, it would be kinda ugly without major modifications done to the sides at the back. Guess I will let my buddy keep the turtle deck.

 

Cut the Touring seat back from the jambs, slice it down the middle vertically, add in about 3" strip to widen it, re-mount to the outer back edge of the door jambs - instant 2-3" extra leg room, smoothed corners, semi-rounded back.

At least that's what I was planning for a Modified as I wanted smooth rear corners rather than angular.

 

Actually, yet another way to accomplish the task is to find the back half of the early body and graft it on just behind the doors. It has the same visual sizing as the roadster body with a bit more **** room. Plus, the rear sections, at least out here, are far more common than the front sections.

 

That was an idea I had but the owner wants to keep the back half to make a small couch/seat for the man cave.