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 Lifestraw: A Personal Water Filter For The Great Outdoors – $25 USD
This is the Lifestraw, you’ve almost certainly seen one before, but the for the uninitiated it’s a straw with a hefty built-in filter that removes 99.999999% of waterborne bacteria and 99.999% of parasites. This…
45 Years In Storage: A Mint-Condition Yamaha XT500 With Only 920 Miles
This 1977 Yamaha XT500 has a fascinating story to tell. It’s the lowest-mileage example of the model we’ve ever featured – a model famous for winning the first two Paris-Dakar Rallies in 1979 and…
100% Made In America: The Gerber Center-Drive Rescue Multi-Tool
This is the new Gerber Center-Drive Rescue, it’s a multi-tool with 14 individual tools and perhaps most impressively in this modern age of sending jobs overseas, it’s 100% made in the USA. The Center-Drive…
For Sale: A Metisse Steve McQueen Desert Racer
This is a Steve McQueen Metisse Desert Racer. It’s one of 300 that are scheduled to be made, each is built in England to the specifications of the one owned by Steve McQueen in…
A 1:3 Scale Ford Mustang V8 Engine Model Kit – With Moving Internals
This is a 1:3 scale model of the high-performance “K-code” V8 used in the 1965 Ford Mustang. Thanks to a discrete electric motor the engine actually “runs” with all the pistons and valves working…
An Original 1975 Bricklin SV-1
This is an original Bricklin SV-1 from 1975, just under 3,000 were built and it’s estimated that approximately 1,700 survive today. The SV-1 was a V8-powered sports car built in Canada by Malcolm Bricklin in…
A Vintage Graham Hill Bell Formula 1 Helmet
This is a vintage Bell Formula 1 helmet that was worn by legendary driver and two-time F1 Drivers’ Championship winner Graham Hill. It’s believed he wore the helmet for several races in the 1970s…
For Sale: A Quadro Sherp Pro – An Amphibious 4×4
This is a 2018 Quadro Sherp Pro, it’s an unusual 4×4 that’s also amphibious and seemingly immune from getting bogged – possibly thanks to those elephantine 63″ low-pressure tires. The Sherp series of vehicles…
The Schott Perfecto® Horween Chromexcel Steerhide Motorcycle Jacket
This is the new Schott Perfecto® Horween Chromexcel steerhide motorcycle jacket, it’s the fabled New York jacket maker’s latest limited edition series based on the classic Perfecto® architecture. Irving Schott designed and produced the…
Project Car: A 1962 Jaguar E-Type – $12,000+ USD
This is a Jaguar E-Type project car, more specifically it’s an early fixed-head coupe model from 1962 – just the second year of production. It’s already been fully disassembled and the main unibody is…
The Squale Matic – An Affordable Swiss Automatic
The Squale Matic is a watch you may not have encountered before – Squale is a small Swiss watchmaker that previously made watch cases under license for Heuer and Blancpain, it was founded by…
For Sale: The Only Boschert B300 “Gullwing” In The World
This is the only Boschert B300 “Gullwing” that was ever made, it was displayed at the 1989 Frankfurt International Motor Show by Hartmut Boschert, and the early plan was to produce 300 of them…