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.
Ben Branch -
The Surf Rat – A Hot Rod Surfboard by Jim O’Mahoney
The Surf Rat is a combining of passions that were shared by many young Americans in the 1950s and 1960s – hot rods and…
World of Speed – A Collection Of Photographic Prints by Johannes Huwe
Johannes Huwe is a world renowned photographer who focusses much of his attention on the world of automobiles, motorcycles, and the adventures people have…
The Double Zero Club – Birmingham Motorcycle Counter Culture In The 1960s
This is an edited extract from This Way To The Revolution, a book by Ian Francis about Birmingham in the late 60s. Available via…
The Porsche MOMO 356 RSR Outlaw by Emory Is For Sale
The Porsche MOMO 356 RSR Outlaw by Rod Emory and his team is one of the fastest street-legal Porsche 356s anywhere in the world….
A Mystery Motorcycle Engine – Do You Recognise It? (Now Solved)
Editor’s Note: We now have an answer to this, please see the new addendum under the original post. This mystery motorcycle engine has us…
Documentary: The Revival Of A De Havilland Mosquito
This one hour documentary shows the restoration of a WWII era De Havilland Mosquito, from an empty abandoned shell to a fully equipped aircraft…
The Original M*A*S*H Bell 47 Helicopter Is For Sale
The most memorable vehicles in the M*A*S*H TV series were almost certainly the twin Bell 47 choppers that featured heavily in the opening credits – the…
The $1.3 Million Dollar Jeep CJ7 From Gas Monkey Garage Is For Sale
The 1981 Jeep CJ7 you see here was comprehensively restored and upgraded by Richard Rawlings and the crew at Gas Monkey Garage, it was…
There’s A 1,000 HP Mopar Hellephant 426 Hemi Crate Engine For Sale On eBay
The 1,000 hp Mopar Hellephant 426 Hemi crate engine lit up the world’s motoring media when it was released in 2019, the engine sold…
1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 – 4-Speed Manual + Rotisserie Restored
The Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 was developed as a high performance package for the Camaro that would allow Chevrolet to go racing in the Trans…
The Squire K-Canvas® Workshop Apron – 20x The Tensile Strength Of Regular Cotton
This is the Squire K-Canvas® Workshop Apron, it’s made from Earnest Co’s proprietary K-Canvas® material, a heavy cotton and Dupont Kevlar® blend that results in a…
An Original, Unrestored IMZ M-61 Soviet Motorcycle – $6,000 USD
The history of motor vehicles from behind the Soviet Union’s Iron Curtain is a thing that many of us in the West are a…