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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Silodrome – The Year In Review – 2020
We get a lot of emails every year from people who are curious what it’s like to run a website like Silodrome, and…
1 of 90 Made: The Rare Ford Torino Twister Special
The Ford Torino Twister Special is an exceedingly rare car, just 90 were ever built and only 29 are now accounted for in…
Twin-Engined Royal Enfield Land Speed Racer – The First Naked Bike To Exceed 200 mph
This highly unusual twin-engined Royal Enfield motorcycle was designed and built by Jimmy Enz of Lynwood, California in the late 1960s with one…
JRL Cycles Lucky 7 – A Radial Engined Production Motorcycle
Editor’s Note: We don’t typically feature choppers on Silodrome as it’s not really our wheelhouse, however we do make exceptions to this every…
The Iso Grifo A3C – Bizzarrini’s Post-Ferrari 250 GTO Masterpiece
Giotto Bizzarrini famously developed the Iso Grifo A3C as an evolutionary descendent of a car he had designed a few short years prior…
The Simpson M50 Helmet – Retro Looks, Modern Safety
The Simpson M50 helmet is a 21st century reissue of Simpson’s classic 1970s-style motorcycle helmets, but it’s now built to current DOT safety…
Documentary: The 1978 Jeep Expedition of the Americas
Editor’s Note: Some of you may have noticed that this is the third “expedition across the Americas” type documentary that we’ve featured in recent…
The Rare Norton Classic – A Wankel Rotary-Engined British Motorcycle
The Norton Classic is one of the rarest motorcycles ever made by the storied British marque, just 100 were built and today they’re…
Silodrome x Japan Tee – Limited To 100 Pieces
This new t-shirt features the Silodrome logo over Japanese script that says “Gasoline Culture” – just 100 of these tees will be made,…
The Chevrolet El Camino SS – A 325 hp American Icon
The Chevrolet El Camino SS was the high performance version of the standard El Camino – a car that had been released in…
The 1:12 Scale Suzuki GSX750S Katana Kit by Tamiya
This is the Suzuki GSX750S Katana 1:12 scale kit from Tamiya, it faithfully replicates one of the most important Suzuki motorcycles of all…
The Original Hesketh Vortan Prototype Is For Sale
The Hesketh Vortan is a one-off prototype motorcycle developed by Hesketh engineer Mick Broom, it was intended to be built as a low volume…