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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1972 Triumph Trackmaster – The Ascot TT Record Holder
The 1972 Triumph Trackmaster you see here is the bike ridden by Ron Moore in the 1970s that set the record around the Ascot…
For Sale: A Porsche 356 Speedster Engine
This is a fully-rebuilt Porsche 356 Pre-A Speedster engine from the first year of the model’s production run – 1954. When new from the…
Mille Miglia Eligible Racer: A 1956 Jaguar XK140 MC Roadster
This is a rare Jaguar XK 140 MC Roadster, it was the highest performance version of the XK140 offered to the public at the time…
Gerber Key Note: The 1 Inch Pocket Knife
This is the Gerber Key Note and it’s almost certainly the shortest pocket knife currently in production, with a blade length of just 1…
Paris-Dakar Rally Specification: Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC 5.0
The Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC 5.0 may not seem like the first vehicle you would choose for endurance racing, but back in the late 1970s…
A ~600 BHP Chevrolet LS V8 Crate Motor From The Hot Rod Company
This is a handbuilt Chevrolet LS V8 from The Hot Rod Company, it’s rated at between 560 and 600 bhp, it comes with a…
A Rare American Giant Killer From 1959: The Corvair-Powered Devin C
This is an original factory-built Devin C built by Bill Devin and his team in 1959. The cars developed by Devin deserve to be…
The Ka-Bar “Space-Bar” – United States Space Force Fighting Knife
On April Fools Day of 2019 the American knife maker Ka-Bar made a comical post on their social media channels about a new model…
A Handbuilt Yamaha Trackmaster TZ750 Dirt Tracker With 120+HP
This Yamaha Trackmaster TZ750 dirt tracker was built by AMA Hall of Fame Member Gary Davis, a former professional motorcycle jumper, veteran Hollywood stuntman,…
British Army Training Film: Land Rover – Safe Driving Techniques
This is a 31 minute instructional film created by Land Rover UK for the British Ministry of Defense to teach new recruits how to…
1 Of 29 Ever Made: A Rare Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing
When it was introduced in February of 1954 at the International Motor Sports Show in New York the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing sent shockwaves…
For Sale: A Douglas AD Skyraider Attack Aircraft
The Douglas Skyraider was designed during WWII and would prove so useful it remained in active service well into the 1980s, it was developed to…