Articles that Ben Branch 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 Arizona Spike: From The Completion Of The Transcontinental Railroad – 1869
This is the “Arizona Spike,” it’s one of four ceremonial railroad spikes that were made to celebrate the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on the 10th of May 1869. Originally known as the “Pacific Railroad,”…
Road Legal: An LS1 V8-Powered Desert Dynamics Buggy
This is a Desert Dynamics off-road racing buggy, it’s powered by a rear-mounted Chevrolet LS1 V8, and amazingly it’s been successfully registered for road use with a California Special Construction title. Racing buggies like this are…
For Sale: Lamborghini Miura Front + Rear Clamshells
These are the original front and rear clamshell body work sections from a Lamborghini Miura S, they’ve now been welded to display stands and they’re being offered for sale – either as display pieces…
The Revolutionary 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado
When the Oldsmobile Toronado was introduced in 1966 it would become the first front wheel drive American production car since the Cord 810/812 from almost 30 years prior in 1937. The front wheel drive…
550 BHP Crate Engine: A Ford Mustang Shelby GT500
This is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 V8, it was purchased new as a crate engine from Ford Racing in 2016 and was then kept in storage – it’s never been used and remains in…
A Rare Harley-Davidson Sportster XLR 883 TT Racer
This is a Harley-Davidson Sportster XLR 883, it’s one of the rarer models in the long-running Sportster family with an estimated 200-500 having been produced in total from the early 1960s until the early 1970s…
Silodrome’s Top 10 Cars Of 2022
Every year we sit down and go over the stats to whittle down a list of all the vehicles we featured over the preceding 12 months to find the 10 most popular. There are…
Bulletproof 4×4 Legend: A 1976 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45 Pickup Truck
This is a restored 1976 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45 pickup truck that has been given a few subtle improvements, like upgraded suspension, air-conditioning, disc brakes, and power steering – but the correct nature of the…
A Camelot Cruiser Motorhome With Matching Poloron Snowmobiles
This is a Camelot Cruiser motorhome with a matching 1974 Ford C-750, it’s a time capsule of sorts – showing the absolute pinnacle of the motorhome world back in the 1970s. Thankfully it retains…
For Sale: A Dodge Dart Swinger – Restored By Car Craft Magazine In 1984
This 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger was restored by the team at Car Craft Magazine in 1984, then raffled off at the 1985 Street Machine Nationals. The restoration process was detailed in extensive articles that…
Cold War Nuclear Attack Rescue Vehicle: A 1965 Austin Gipsy
This 1965 Austin Gipsy was originally stationed at a nuclear base in North Wales where it was on standby for a nuclear attack on Britain. If such an attack occurred its job was to…
Retro Vanlife Luxury: A 1965 GMC Bus Motorhome
This classic motorhome actually started life as a troop transport bus at Fort Ord Army Base on Monterey Bay in California in 1965. In this role it would doubtless have carried thousands of new GIs…