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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This Is Steve McQueen’s Husqvarna 400 Cross – The Sports Illustrated Cover Bike
This is arguably the most famous of the Husqvarnas owned by Steve McQueen, it’s the bike that he was riding on the now legendary cover of the August 23rd, 1971 issue of Sports Illustrated…
Italian Barn Find: An Fully-Functional, Amateur-Built Ferrari F92A F1 Car
Although this may look like a Ferrari F92A Formula 1 car it’s actually a fully-functional copy that was built by an Italian enthusiast named Gianni Pascal. Decades after it was built it was rediscovered…
The East German Trabant 601 – “The Worst Car Ever Made”
This is a Trabant 601, by far the most prolific of the 3.7 million Trabants ever made. Known as the “Trabbi” in its native East Germany it was nicknamed “the worst car ever made,”…
Garrett Turbocharger Wall Lamp: $108 USD
This is the Garrett Turbocharger Wall Lamp by Berkay Erdoğan of Auto Decoration. As the name suggests, it’s a wall lamp made from a real (formerly operational) Garrett turbocharger. The team at Auto Decoration…
A Project Car For The Ambitious: 1963 AC Ace 2.6 Roadster
This is all that remains of 1963 AC Ace 2.6 chassis #RS5032, it’s now being offered for sale as a restoration project, albeit an ambitious restoration candidate that will require a substantial amount of…
A Rare 1967 Aermacchi Harley-Davidson Sprint CRS Scrambler
This is a rare and recently restored Aermacchi Harley-Davidson Sprint CRS, the result of an alliance between Harley-Davidson and Italian motorcycle manufacturer Aermacchi in the 1960s. This was the pure racing version of the Sprint, designed for…
For Sale: Jerry Seinfeld’s 1964 Volkswagen Type 2 EZ Camper
Actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld is well-known for his love of Porsches, but his passion for air-cooled motoring extends further than that – he’s owned a number of Volkawagens including an unrestored 1960 Beetle…
Full Documentary: The History Of Land Rover
This documentary tells the story of the humble Land Rover, from its origins immediately after WWII as a four-wheel drive farm tractor replacement right up until the late 1990s with the release of the…
David Carradine’s Alligator Car From “Death Race 2000”
This is David Carradine’s car from the 1975 dystopian sci-fi cult classic Death Race 2000. The film stars Carradine alongside Sylvester Stallone and Simone Griffeth, it centers around the Transcontinental Road Race – a race across the…
An AC 3000ME Turbo – A Rare Mid-Engined British Classic
This is a 1980 AC 3000ME Turbo, it’s a rare car with only 100 or so produced in total. It’s powered by a mid-mounted 3.0 liter Ford V6 which sends power to the rear…
Barn Find: Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Coupe Project Car
This Jaguar E-Type has spent over 48 years tucked away in a storage shed, it was originally parked up in 1973/1974 when it needed some work on its brake calipers and bodywork. It would remain gathering…
For Sale: A Ferrari 512BB LM Front Clamshell
This is the clamshell front end from the Ferrari 512BB LM (chassis 35529) that was raced by Fabrizio Violati’s Scuderia Bellancauto team, taking a class win at the 1981 1000km of Monza. The front end of…