I Love Jeep Thrills

I needed a truck, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy anything normal. Enter the Jeep Gladiator diesel.

- EZRA DYER

After three full years of hemming and hawing, I did it: I bought a Jeep Gladiator. I am now legally required to wave in the general direction of any vehicle with round headlights and a seven-slot grille. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll refer you to the upside-down vinyl graphics on my truck's back window, which read, "It's a Jeep thing. You wouldn't understand." I think that's supposed to say something about flipping my truck back over on its wheels, but cut me some slack. I'm new to Jeep culture. At this early stage, I'm not even sure what kind of suspension lift and oversize tires I should get. I just know I need to get them soon, or I'll be ostracized by the JL community. Sorry-JT is the model code for the Gladiator. Luckily the guys at my local Jeepers Creepers Sunday Suspension Flex-athon thought I was joking when I asked what Justin Timberlake had to do with anything.