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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A Collection Of Original Factory Bertone Blueprints
This is a rare collection of original factory technical master blueprints from Bertone, one of the most important and influential Italian automotive design houses in history. The collection includes drawings for the Lamborghini Miura,…
Project Car For Sale: A 1988 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV
This 1988 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV was rescued from long term storage recently, its former owner kept it for 35 years in largely original condition, and it’s now being offered for sale. This 5000…
The New Vero Impulse Thin EDC Pocket Knife
This is the Vero Impulse Thin EDC pocket knife, it’s a new design from Vero Engineering – a company founded by American design engineer Joseph Vero to produce knives to his own designs. As…
A Rare Turbocharged + AWD 1988 Italdesign Aztec
This is the Italdesign Aztec, it’s believed that just 18 were made, each was powered by a turbocharged Audi Quattro engine sending its 250 bhp through the all wheel drive system from a Lancia…
eBay Find: A 592 BHP Ferrari Portofino Twin Turbo V8
This is the twin turbo V8 from a Ferrari Portofino, the car it came from is said to have had just 7,315 kms (4,545 miles) on the odometer and the engine comes with the…
Garage Find After 42 Years: A 1968 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2
This 1968 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2 was owned by a French doctor who parked it in 1981 and left to work overseas. The car remained in a garage largely forgotten for 42 years in…
British-Made Motorcycle Socks By Two Wheels For Life
These are the popular British-made “Motorcycle Socks” from Two Wheels For Life, a charitable organization that runs critically important healthcare programs in four African nations – The Gambia, Nigeria, Malawi, and Lesotho. Two Wheels…
A One-Off 70 Series Land Cruiser
This Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series now benefits from a range of recent work including a “facelift” upgrade with VDJ79 front-end panels and a number of interior mods inspired by the 2022 70th Anniversary…
Designed By Ringo Starr: An Original Ringo or Robin Rolls-Royce Table
This unusual table was designed by Ringo Starr in 1970. It consists of two original Rolls-Royce radiators joined together with an Amboyna wood center section over two levels. This table was one of the…
The Most Expensive Production Car In The World In 1998: The Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR
The Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR was developed in just 128 days to compete with the Porsche 911 GT1 and the McLaren F1 GTR in the then-new FIA GT Championship. The Mercedes would prove dominant in…
The Farer Morgan Automatic: Designed In Britain – Made In Switzerland
This is the Farer Morgan Automatic, it’s an automatic watch developed to offer excellent legibility in the cockpit and solid reliability thanks to an anti-magnetic inner Faraday cage to negate magnetic fields that might…
Desert Sled Perfection: A Hand-Built 1967 Triumph TR6 Trophy
The Triumph TR6 Trophy is the motorcycle for which the term “Desert Sled” was coined back in the 1960s as a way to describe the bike’s popularity amongst the desert racing crowd in Southern…