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 Lotus Esprit Turbo: James Bond’s “Other” British Car
The Lotus Esprit Turbo is undoubtably one of the most avante garde automobiles to make it into full scale production, its body is formed from an origami-like blend of flat surfaces and sharp creases…
Full Film: Follow That Girl – A Motorcycle Adventure Across Australia In The 1970s
Breakaway – Follow That Girl was originally released in Australia on the ABC television network on January 1st, 1978. It’s a half hour film that shows world-touring French author and motorcycle adventurer Anne-France Dautheville…
Robert Redford’s Porsche 904 GTS Is For Sale
The Porsche 904 GTS was unveiled in 1963 as the German company’s primary sports racing car. It was powered not by their new flat-six but by the tried and tested four-cam flat-four, and it…
“The Next Great American Supercar” Is For Sale On eBay
When it was first shown to the public in 2009 the Devon GTX was billed as “The Next Great American Supercar.” The company did have some solid reasoning behind the claim – the car…
The Jacob Bromwell Freedom Flask: A Solid Copper 12oz Flask
This is the Jacob Bromwell Freedom Flask, it’s made from 100% copper using a traditional hand-hammering technique and each comes with a lifetime guarantee. The Jacob Bromwell company was founded back in 1819 long…
1972 Triumph Trackmaster – The Ascot TT Record Holder
The 1972 Triumph Trackmaster you see here is the bike ridden by Ron Moore in the 1970s that set the record around the Ascot TT circuit in Gardena, California. A record that then stood…
For Sale: A Porsche 356 Speedster Engine
This is a fully-rebuilt Porsche 356 Pre-A Speedster engine from the first year of the model’s production run – 1954. When new from the factory this air-cooled flat-four was producing 55 bhp (DIN) at…
Mille Miglia Eligible Racer: A 1956 Jaguar XK140 MC Roadster
This is a rare Jaguar XK 140 MC Roadster, it was the highest performance version of the XK140 offered to the public at the time of its release. The “MC” in the model name means…
Gerber Key Note: The 1 Inch Pocket Knife
This is the Gerber Key Note and it’s almost certainly the shortest pocket knife currently in production, with a blade length of just 1 inch. When it comes to daily carry pocket knives, size…
Paris-Dakar Rally Specification: Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC 5.0
The Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC 5.0 may not seem like the first vehicle you would choose for endurance racing, but back in the late 1970s and early 1980s the car became an unlikely hero –…
A ~600 BHP Chevrolet LS V8 Crate Motor From The Hot Rod Company
This is a handbuilt Chevrolet LS V8 from The Hot Rod Company, it’s rated at between 560 and 600 bhp, it comes with a two year unlimited mile warranty, and each engine retails for $9,655…
A Rare American Giant Killer From 1959: The Corvair-Powered Devin C
This is an original factory-built Devin C built by Bill Devin and his team in 1959. The cars developed by Devin deserve to be more famous than they are, in period they won 32…