Articles that Ben Branch 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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The El Cap Boot By Big Rock Candy Mountaineering
This is the Big Rock Candy Mountaineering El Cap Boot. It’s a classically-styled hiking boot that’s partially based on the French Varappe-style rock climbing…
Barn Find: An Affordable Alfa Romeo Montreal Project Car
This is a 1975 Alfa Romeo Montreal that has been in storage for approximately 38 years since 1987. It formerly belonged to Philip Duffy…
Retro Aluminum Lawn Chairs: Handmade In The USA
Lawn Chair USA was founded in 2009 to bring back classic, American-made folding aluminum webbed lawn chairs – the kind that your grandparents (and…
A Rare American-Made Byers SR-100: “The World’s Most Beautiful Sports Car”
This is a Byers SR-100 that was originally built in the late 1950s. The SR-100 was developed in the USA by Jim Byers as…
They Don’t Sell This At Pottery Barn: A Ferrari 360 V8 Coffee Table
This is coffee table built around a Tipo F131 3.6 liter V8 engine from a Ferrari 360 Modena, along with its F1-style gearbox, and…
For Sale: A 1970 Volkswagen Type 2 “Adventure Van”
This is the “Adventure Van,” it’s a 1970 Volkswagen Type 2 camper van that’s been given a series of modifications to make it well-suited…
Rare In The USA: A 1992 Honda EZ Snow “Snowbike”
The Honda EZ Snow as released in 1991 at the Tokyo Motor Show as a snowbike based closely on the then-new Honda EZ 90….
For Sale: A Rare 1980 Honda CB750 SS “Seeley Special”
This is a rare, original Honda CB750 SS “Seeley Special” that combined the engine and gearbox from the Honda CB750 with a far superior…
The 503 Prince® Pocket Knife From Buck Knives: Made In The USA
This is the 503 Prince® knife from Buck Knives, each is made in the USA from heat-treated 420HC steel with a locking drop point…
For Sale: A Rare BMW-Powered Bertone Freeclimber
The Bertone Freeclimber is a little-known 1980s-era 4×4 that started life as a Japanese SUV, before being modified by the Italians, given a German…
Affordable V12: A 1988 BMW M70 V12 For $1,330 USD
This is a BMW M70 V12 engine from 1988. This was BMW’s first production V12 engine and a version of it, named the BMW…
The Fastest Chevette Ever? A 447 BHP V8-Swapped 1976 Chevette
This is a 1976 Chevrolet Chevette that was built by the Hooker Headers R&D department in the early 1980s, and featured in the November…