Harry Wagner

Harry Wagner is the newest staff member at Petersen’s 4-Wheel & Off-Road, but he isn’t new to the 4-wheel world. While some guys are in to rockcrawling, or expeditions, or desert racing, Wagner can’t get enough of any and all things off road. He grew up on trails like the Rubicon and Fordyce Creek in the back of his father’s Toyota Land Cruiser. When he was old enough to drive his first vehicle was an ’86 Jeep CJ-7, which took him on countless camping and snowboarding trips while attending college in Colorado. Wagner sold the Jeep when he moved to Venezuela in 1999 and rekindled the Toyota roots from his childhood. When he moved back stateside he bought a Toyota mini truck that has been customized over the years for hardcore rockcrawling, but he has also owned a ’77 Ford F-150, ’95 Chevy pickup, ’88 Dodge longbed, and ’08 Dodge Ram diesel. For the past eight years he has been documenting his journeys as a freelance writer before joining Petersen’s 4-Wheel & Off-Road, where he continues to refine his photography skills and dream up crazy story ideas with Péwé and Williams.