Articles that Ben has written have been covered on CNN, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, Autoweek Magazine, Wired Magazine, Autoblog, Gear Patrol, Jalopnik, The Verge, and many more. Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
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For Sale: An Original Chrysler Sno-Runner
The Chrysler Sno-Runner is almost certainly the strangest vehicle ever produced by the American automaker. It’s essentially a snow-moped with a single ski up front,…
Weird Wheels: A Vectrix VX-1 Electric Custom Motorcycle
When you first lay eyes on this Vectrix VX-1 custom it’s not completely clear what you’re looking at. It somewhat resembles the Henderson KJ…
Randolph Aviator Sunglasses: U.S. Military Pilot Standard Issue
These are the Randolph Aviator Sunglasses, they have the unusual distinction of having been standard issue for U.S. military pilots and astronauts for over…
For Sale: A Rare Early Mercedes-Benz Unimog
This is the Mercedes-Benz Unimog 411, it’s a member of the first generation of Mercedes-built Unimogs that incorporated a range of improvements over the…
KTM 990 Super Duke Flat Tracker: Second Wave 001
This is the KTM 990 Super Duke as we’ve ever seen it before, as a stripped back lightweight flat tracker that would likely make very…
For Sale: A Lotus-Renault 98T-Style Go-Kart
This is a Lotus-Renault 98T-style go kart, it was built specifically to resemble the car driven by Ayrton Senna in the 1986 Formula 1 season…
For Sale: A Metisse Steve McQueen Desert Racer
Just 300 examples of the Metisse Steve McQueen Desert Racer will be made, it’s a low-volume production motorcycle based very closely on the Metisse owned and…
Hägglunds Bandvagn BV206: An Amphibious All-Terrain Legend
This vehicle is known as either the Hägglunds BV206 or the Bandvagn 206, it’s a fully-amphibious vehicle that can be used on water, snow, ice, mud, sand, gravel,…
A Ferrari 360 Modena V8 Engine Coffee Table
This is a glass-topped coffee table that’s been built around an original Ferrari 360 Modena V8, an engine that would have been capable of…
Retro Survivor: A 1963 Dodge Frank Motor Home
This is a Dodge Frank Motor Home from 1963 and surprisingly it remains in largely original condition throughout. Many of these older motorhomes have either been completely refurbished…
Safari “Rallyewagen” – 1979 Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC 5.0
This 1979 Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC 5.0 is one of seven cars in this series, it’s a Mercedes-Benz works safari rally car and it took…
For Sale: A First-Generation Ford GT V8 Engine – 550 BHP
This is a first-generation Ford GT V8 engine, I was bought new by the owner and kept as a spare for his Ford GT,…