Ryan,
Go for it, but haggle down on the price because of the missing turret - they are nigh impossible to find. In Australia after WW2 many tanks had their turret taken off to be sold for scrap, the hull being turned into farming equipment of some sort.
As Niels pointed out the good news is all Stuart variants were turned into turretless Recce tanks - see this thread:
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=14212
Hanno