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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Barn Fresh: An Affordable Jensen Interceptor Project Car
The Jensen Interceptor is one of the unsung grand touring heroes of its age, with a beautiful body designed by Touring in Italy, a…
The Build-It-Yourself R3 Bluetooth Speaker – $125 USD
This is the R3 Bluetooth Speaker by Celia & Perah, it’s designed to be assembled by hand as a fun kit building process, once…
There’s An Operational Lycoming R-680 Radial Aircraft Engine For Sale On eBay
This is an original and fully operational Lycoming R-680 radial aircraft engine. It’s fitted to a display stand with all the required controls for…
A One-Off Custom BMW R 65 Custom Motorcycle
Airheads like this BMW R 65 have become a popular choice with custom motorcycle builders everywhere from Paris to Perth and just about everywhere…
For Sale: A Historically Significant Ford Capri RS2600 – 1 Of 3 Pre-Production Cars
This is believed to be one of three pre-production examples of the Ford Capri RS2600, a car that would become a legend in its…
The Mustang: A Short Film About The Ford Mustang I
The Ford Mustang is one of the most famous cars in the world, it sits alongside other luminaries like the Beetle, Mini, 911, Jeep,…
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…