Gladiator Adds Gravity to the Floor of L.A. Auto Show
Originally built for the Moab Easter Jeep Safari, custom Gladiator ready to raid the rocks outside of Los Angeles.
There’s a buzzing in the air over Los Angeles right now. Nope, it’s not the KTLA-TV helicopter broadcasting yet another car chase to those watching at home. It’s the annual automotive extravaganza known as the Los Angeles Auto Show, held on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center from November 22 through December 1 (November 18 through 21 are media days).
Here, the latest and greatest from the world’s automakers are revealed to one and all before the auto show season concludes in Tokyo the following week. Of course, there are also some cool custom Jeeps to go with the new vehicles, including one we’ve seen once before: the Gladiator Gravity.
The Gladiator Gravity originally debuted back around late April 2019, at the Moab Easter Jeep Safari. The special Jeep started off as a Gladiator Rubicon, then left its top and stock doors behind to begin the customization.
Instead of the stock units, the Punk’N Metallic Orange Gladiator wears a set of tubular doors for dealing with scrapes and bashes along the trail. Made from two-inch steel tubes, the doors are from the Jeep catalog.
In fact, the entire Gladiator Gravity build was created with parts from the Jeep and Mopar parts catalogs, as the whole point of the Moab Easter Jeep Safari every year is to show what Jeep and Mopar can do to compete with the aftermarket. We’d certainly be down to have the Jeep grille stitched into our Gladiator’s seats if it were available direct from the factory.
Out back, the Gladiator has a tonneau cover hiding a set of sliding lockable drawers to keep all of your overlanding gear safe and secure on the trail. On top of the cover is a cargo basket for handling tents, bedding, and other goods that can’t fit underneath.
While most of the Moab Easter customs are one-offs that would take a ton of work to replicate, the Gladiator Gravity shows how anyone attending the L.A. Auto Show can easily customize their own Jeep trucks to tackle Moab and beyond, all by simply ordering from the factory catalog.
Photos by Derin Richardson for JK Forum
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