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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The Chevrolet Blazer Chalet: A Four-Wheel Drive Adventure Camper
The Chevrolet Blazer Chalet and its sibling, the GMC Jimmy Casa Grande, were only built in 1976 and 1977 in relatively limited numbers –…
1965 Ford Anglia Sportsman: The “Mini Ford Thunderbird”
The Ford Anglia is one of few 1960s-era classic cars that’s immediately recognizable to many millennial thanks to the model’s inclusion in the Harry Potter…
The Honda T500: A Mid-Engined Truck With A 9,000 RPM Redline
When Honda debuted the T360 mini-truck in June of 1963 it became the company’s first ever production automobile, beating the Honda S500 Sports by…
A Rare, Fully Functioning Marmon V16 Engine On A Display Stand
The Marmon V16 was a remarkably advanced engine by the standards of the late 1920s, it features an aluminum block and heads with steel…
The Bowler Wildcat: A Street-Legal Off-Road Racer
The Bowler Wildcat looks like what might happen if you injected a standard Land Rover Defender with six pints of horse steroids and left…
Free Live Stream: The 2021 Goodwood Revival
The Goodwood Revival is one of the most important vintage motorsport events in the world, if not the most important outright. Held annually at…
The “Ferrari Of The East” – A Rare Melkus RS 1000 From East Germany
Known locally as the “Ferrari Of The East,” the Melkus RS 1000 is a sports car that was made behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet…
The Hodaka Ace 100 – A Revolutionary 1960s-Era Japanese/American Dirt Bike
This is an original 1968 Hodaka Ace 100, an excellent example of the influential motorcycles made by the unusual American/Japanese company back in the 1960s…
A Jet Age Citroën H Van By Barou: One Of A Kind Vintage Camper
This is a Citroën H Van as you’ve probably never seen it before, with a custom made coachbuilt body by French company Barou. It was…
The Danner x James Bond 007 Tanicus Boots From “No Time To Die”
These are the new 007 Tanicus Boots From “No Time To Die,” that new Bond film that was originally meant to be released in…
The “Italian E-Type” – A Jaguar E-Type By Frua And Italsuisse
The car you see here is the only E-Type Jaguar that had its design reworked by Frua and Italsuisse. The reason both coachbuilders took…
For Sale: A Lamborghini Miura Front Clamshell
This is the front clamshell from a Lamborghini Miura, it was removed by the car’s owner and replaced with a new nose, then placed…