My TJ is under the knife right now... I am trying to stay as much Jeep body as possible, but I had to trim the back of the body and I took the fenders completely off. I'll have tube/flat fenders and tube sidesteps... and pretty much the only thing left as a Jeep is the portion of the body... everything else is going to be swapped or cut out and won't be Jeep anymore.
I dunno... I absolutely love the tube buggies, but I love the look of a Jeep body as well...
What are you thinking of doing? What kind of Jeep? Are you building a completely new rig altogether?