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 Gaupe Scandinavian Carving Knife By Helle Knives
This is the Gaupe Scandinavian Carving Knife, it was designed by the Norwegian team over at Helle Knives as a tough multi-use knife that’ll last a lifetime or more with good care. The Gaupe has a…
Carroll Shelby’s Personal Shelby GT500 Is For Sale
This Shelby GT500 belonged to the man responsible for its creation, race car driver turned high-performance automobile manufacturer Carroll Shelby. Interestingly, Shelby wouldn’t be this car’s only famous owner, it also belonged to Academy…
The World’s First Interplanetary Watch – The Omega Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer
This is the Omega Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer, it was co-developed by Omega and the European Space Agency (ESA) specifically to be suitable for use on both Earth or Mars. Omega is well-known as the company…
A Rare 6×6 “Lunar Jeep” – The Poncin VP2000
This is a Poncin VP2000, it’s a rare 6×6 amphibious vehicle developed in France in the 1970s. For obvious reasons it was nicknamed the “Lunar Jeep” and it quickly found favor in regions with…
The Muzen Wild Mini Rugged Outdoor Speaker
This is the Muzen Wild Mini, it’s a rugged outdoor speaker that is completely waterproof, it fits in the palm of your hand, charges by USB, and plays music off your phone using the…
An Affordable Mid-Engined Gullwing Sports Car: The Autozam AZ-1
The Autozam AZ-1 is a car that even many die hard car guys have never heard of, largely because it was only ever offered in the Japanese domestic market. Originally developed in the 1980s, the…
For Sale: A Crashed Ferrari F50 Front End
This is the front end bodywork from a Ferrari F50 that has obviously suffered a collision and it’s now being offered for sale either as a display piece or as a restoration project for…
For Sale: A 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 “Time Machine”
This DeLorean DMC-12 has been carefully modified into a Back to the Future-style time machine, including the addition of a Mr Fusion, a flux capacitor, external wiring, and many switches, circuits, and panels replicated from…
For Sale: Blak Douglas’ Rare Ford Falcon XY 4X4 Ute
This is a rare Ford Falcon XY 4×4 Ute – if you’ve never seen one before that’s entirely understandable, just 432 of them were ever made and they were exclusively sold in the Australian…
Walter Wolf’s Ferrari 288 GTO Is For Sale
Every example of the Ferrari 288 GTO is special, but this one is perhaps a little more special than most due to the fact that its first owner was Walter Wolf – an oil…
The Gearbox MKII Transparent Turntable – $545 USD
This is the Gearbox MKII Transparent Turntable, it was inspired by the minimalist Braun PC 3 SV record player created by industrial design legend Dieter Rams back in 1955. The Gearbox MKII was developed…
Adventure Machine: A 327 V8 Swapped International Harvester Scout 80
This is a 1963 International Harvester Scout 80 that’s been painstakingly rebuilt from the ground up to perform far better than the original. It now rides on Toyota axles and springs front and back,…