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Jeep® Heritage | 1962 Jeep Gladiator Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 4:20 am by Jeep in Heritage 1962 Jeep Gladiator Each Friday on the Jeep ® Blog, we explore the Jeep brand’s iconic heritage by highlighting a different historical vehicle. This week’s vehicle is the 1962 Jeep Gladiator. We’re officially into a new decade – the 1960s – in our weekly Heritage Fridays blog series. To celebrate that, this week’s vehicle focus is on the Jeep Gladiator, the completely new “J” line of trucks that were introduced for the 1963 model year. 1962 Jeep Gladiator The Jeep Gladiator was nothing if not versatile, thanks to its range of available configurations. The full-size pickup truck shared the same platform, front end, and powertrain as the vaunted Jeep Wagoneer. The 120-inch J-200 or the 126-inch J-300 versions came with either RWD or 4WD and a solid front axle or independent front suspension with optional dual rear wheels. The Gladiator had several available co...

Fall Car Care - Transmission Service In our continued efforts to educate consumers on the importance of maintaining your car, we are going to talk about your transmission.  Simply put, without a transmission your vehicle will not go.  Today's vehicles last longer and are less likely to break down.....true and false.  Today's vehicles are much more sophisticated than their ancestors and their regular maintenance is more important than ever.  With regular maintenance most new generation vehicles will go 200,000 miles without any major issues, but the key is regular maintenance.  Their are some simple facts with any vehicle, parts to wear with time and use and when they break, it costs sufficiently more to fix. So smaller investments along the way can prolong your major expenses to the distant future.  Automatic Transmission As with any major system, the transmission is often ignored or overlooked until it actually breaks, and then it is huge expens...

October is Fall Car Care Month  at all Bruce Titus Automotive Locations.  This segment is about your brakes. Your vehicles brakes are the heart of your vehicles safety systems, and yet many just don't seem to realize how important it is to maintain this critical system.  Did you know that according to national statistics that 40% of vehicle accidents are related to defects in the braking system because they were not maintained properly?It is not enough to bring the car to the shop when something goes wrong.  Maintenance and care should be taken to make sure that your braking system is in its best running order before facing an accident.  Have the brakes checked. While today's ABS brake systems require less maintenance, it does not mean you can just sit and forget them until they either fail, or start to grind.  As with any car maintenance people find it hard to spend the money on their vehicle.  But, it is much less expensive to perform regular ma...