Gaylord Gladiator — yes, yes, it’s a hilarious Gname, get it all out now. Done? Great, let’s get on to the very serious business of discussing what could have been one of the finest automobiles of the 1950s.
The Gaylord Gladiator’s story begins with bobby pins — yes, those little wavy hair pins that seem to end up strewn throughout the house any time a teenage girl is within a 200m radius. Jim and Ed Gaylord, the two brothers behind the Gladiator, had bobby-pin money thanks to their father, who made an absolute fortune selling
