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 Car The Star Wars Landspeeder Was Based On: The Bond Bug
Although you may be looking at the car pictured above and wondering what it is, you almost certainly have seen one before. Well you’ve…
For Sale: An Unusual Alpine A610 – 1 Of 818 Ever Made
The Alpine A610 would be the last hurrah of the small but celebrated French automaker, it would represent the ultimate evolutionary iteration of the…
A Rare $8 Million Dollar Track Weapon: The Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione
The Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione is a car that very nearly never existed, it was hurriedly developed from the standard 275 GTB road car…
The 400+hp Chevrolet Aerosedan
This is the Chevrolet Aerosedan, it’s a one-off hot rod built by the legendary Ken Fenical, aka Posies, of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. In the world…
The First Automobile – A Benz Patent-Motorwagen Ectype – $60,000+ USD
This is an exact reproduction of what is widely regarded to be the world’s first production automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. It was built by John…
James Bond’s Most Elegant Car: The Bentley R-Type Continental
Although we most often associate James Bond with the Aston Martin DB5, in the 1961 Ian Fleming novel Thunderball his automobile of choice was a…
Dakota Waxed Canvas Bag By Buffalo Jackson
This is the Dakota Waxed Canvas Bag by the team at Buffalo Jackson. The design for this bag was modeled on an old vintage…
A Triumph Bonneville TR120 Owned By Bud Ekins (And Steve McQueen)
This 1970 Triumph Bonneville TR120 has a considerably more interesting history than most, it was first owned by legendary stuntman and off-road racer Bud Ekins…
Cammenga Tritium Compass 3H: Made In The USA – $100+ USD
The Cammenga Tritium Compass 3H is used extensively by the US Military as well as countless other fighting forces around the world, in fact…
For Sale: A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Project Plane: $9 Million USD
This Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is 80% restored and it’s now being offered for sale to a new owner to complete the project, with…
There’s An Original Spitfire Straight-8 Engine For Sale
This is an original Chrysler Spitfire straight-8 engine from 1949, it has a displacement of 323 cubic inches, or 5.3 liters, and depending on…
The Tiny Subaru 360 Was The First Subaru Production Car Imported Into The USA
While today we often think of Subarus as being either championship winning rally cars or tough all-wheel drive station wagons, the first car ever…