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 1968 Fuji Go-Devil: The Folding Motorcycle That Fits In A Suitcase
This is the Fuji Go-Devil scooter, it’s a small folding motorcycle that was designed to fit neatly into a suitcase or the supplied carry bag –…
New For 2022: The Hedon x Foreigner Helmet
It’s not everyday that a motorcycle gear manufacturer works with a legendary rock band on a new motorcycle helmet design – but this is…
The “Milan Coupe” – A Rare Shortened 1979 Cadillac Seville
The Cadillac Seville Milan coupe was a car that was built in very limited numbers by a private specialist company in California called Milan Coach Builders…
Autodromo Prototipo Chronograph – Vic Elford 1969 Edition
This is the Vic Elford 1969 edition of the Prototipo Chronograph by the watchmakers over at Autodromo. It was designed in collaboration with iconic…
For Sale: A Hawker Fury ISS Fighter Aircraft
The Hawker Fury has the unusual distinction of being one of the only propeller-powered aircraft to shoot down a jet fighter in the years…
The Black Arrow Wild & Free Motorcycle Jacket
This is the new Wild & Free motorcycle jacket by the team over at Black Arrow, it’s designed for riding during the warmer months or…
The Rare Iso Grifo A3/C – Bizzarrini’s “Ferrari 250 GTO Mark 2”
The Iso Grifo A3/C was developed by Giotto Bizzarrini as the high-performance, racing version of the road-going Iso Grifo A3/L. Bizzarrini had earlier developed the…
For Sale: Jim Clark’s Salvaged Lotus 33 Nose Cone
This is Jim Clark’s Lotus 33 nose cone from the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix. Clark had enjoyed an incredible race and moved from 14th…
This Is A Vintage American Sand Rail: A Beetle Powered Dune Racer
As Sand Rails first began to appear in the 1960s, they represented the second major evolutionary step for off-road buggies after the more primitive…
The Ardun V8: Hot Rod Engine Royalty
This is an original Ardun V8 engine, or perhaps more correctly this is a modified Ford Flathead V8 engine with Ardun heads and a…
There’s A Custom Ferrari 412 Pickup “Ute” For Sale – $19,500+ USD
In the long and storied history of Ferrari the company has never built a pickup, or a “ute” as they’re called in Australia. This…
Full Vintage Documentary: Vacuum Control Chevrolet Gearshift – 1938
This short film, titled Vacuum Control, explains in detail how Chevrolet’s then-new column shifted manual transmission works. It was produced and released in 1938 to accompany…