Jim Allen (4x4 writer)
Jim Allen has been writing and photographing for 4x4 magazines including Four Wheeler since the early 1980s, and is the author of eight books on four-wheeling and technical topics. He is credited as a veteran journalist, and a Jeep and four-wheel drive historian. Media appearances. Jim Allen was consulted prominently in the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" series, season 10 episode 37: "4x4", (2003), about the history of four-wheel drive vehicles. He was also consulted both on-screen, and did voice-overs on the PBS-documentary Jeep: Steel Soldier, part of WGTE-TV 's "Toledo Stories" series (27 September 2007); and featured as a Jeep historian on the one-hour (44 min runtime) Discovery Times documentary "Man and Jeep". He further appeared in the opening episode of the Discovery Channel's TV-series "Shifting Gears with Aaron Kaufman". Personal background. Jim Allen (1954) has been a soldier, a sailor, an ASE Certified Master Auto Technician, an off-highway driving instructor, and has first-hand experience as a farmer.