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 Austin Champ Was The Quirky British Answer To The American Jeep
The Austin Champ was created in the years after WWII as the British answer to the American Jeep. Development started in 1947 and resulted…
The Breitling Superocean Automatic 44
The Breitling Superocean Automatic 44 is one of the newer offerings in the Superocean dive watch model family. Many associate Breitling with their popular…
For Sale: The New Legend x Iron & Resin Super Scout II
This is the New Legend x Iron & Resin Super Scout II (SSII), it started life as a standard 1976 International Scout II that…
Free Guide: A 1970s-Era Motorcycle Safety Training Film
This is a 1970s-era motorcycle safety film that’s narrated in English but appears to have been filmed in Germany and Northern Italy. The primary…
This Is The Pontiac Firebird From “The Rockford Files”
This is the 1978 Pontiac Firebird that was used on the television series The Rockford Files from 1978 until 1980. The show starred James…
The Heimplanet Fistral Tent: An Unusual Tent That Can Be Set Up In 14 Seconds
This is the Heimplanet Fistral tent, it’s the smallest and least expensive tent made by the German camping goods company, and just like its larger…
The Meteor 27 Litre V12 Special: 1,449 lb/ft And (Theoretically) Capable Of 204 mph
As its name suggests, the Meteor 27 Litre V12 Special you see here is powered by a Meteor V12 – that’s the non-supercharged version of…
A $5,000 Coffee Table Made From A Cosworth DFX INDY Racing Engine
This is a Cosworth DFX INDY racing engine that’s been converted into a glass-topped coffee table, and it now has the eye-watering sticker price…
A Fully-Functional Ferrari 312 F1 Replica – $9,000 USD
There can be little doubt that this car is one of the best pound-for-pound entertainment propositions that we’ve featured here on Silodrome, particularly for…
The Baak Moon – A Custom Triumph Bobber
This is the Baak Moon, it’s a comprehensively rebuilt Triumph Bobber created by the European company’s new American base of operations. As a result…
1969 Ford Torino Talladega – An 870 hp NASCAR Street-Legal Racer
This is one of just 750 or so factory-built 1969 Ford Torino Talladegas ever made. The cars were only built for a few weeks…
Display Piece: A Spice Engineering Ferrari SE87C IMSA Front End
This is the front end of the Ferrari V8-powered Spice Engineering SE87C coupe, it was raced by David Tennyson in the IMSA Camel Lights class and…