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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For Sale: A North American F-100 Super Sabre Jet Engine
This is a Pratt & Whitney J57, perhaps best known today as the first production aircraft engine to be officially rated in the 10,000 lb thrust class. The J57 would prove to be a…
A Batcycle + Robin’s Go-Kart For Sale – An Adam West Era Classic
The Batcycle from the original 1960s-era Batman TV series starring Adam West was almost certainly one of the least powerful “Bat” vehicles ever made – it was based on a two-stroke Yamaha Catalina 250…
Rare Antique: A Hauenstein Beer Cast Iron Pretzel Bottle Opener
This is an original cast iron Hauenstein Beer pretzel bottle opener from the 1930s. These were likely created for promotional purposes, they measure in at 2 7/8″ wide and apparently they can be a…
The Jensen-Healey – A Rare 5 Time SCCA “D Production” Championship Winner
The Jensen-Healey is a classic car with dueling reputations, on the one hand it proved highly successful in motorsport as one of very few cars in history to win the Sports Car Club of…
The New Blitz Stormproof Duffle Bag x Backpack
This is the new Blitz Stormproof Duffle Bag, it’s the latest creation from Fred and Hugo at Blitz Motorcycles, a duo that have been building both bikes and gear out of their secretive Paris…
For Sale: Rowan Atkinson’s (AKA Mr Bean’s) Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato Race Car
This is believed to be both the fastest and most powerful example of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato in the world. This is thanks to the fact that after Rowan Atkinson of Mr…
The New Fender® X MoFi® PrecisionDeck Turntable
This is the new Fender® X MoFi® PrecisionDeck Turntable, as the lengthy name suggests it’s a collaborative design between iconic American guitar makers fender and MoFi, or the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. The plinth…
The Ner-A-Car – This Was The Weirdest Motorcycle Of The 1920s
The Ner-A-Car, or Neracar as it was known in England, still holds the record as the most prolifically produced motorcycle with hub center steering ever built – beating both the Yamaha GTS1000 and the Bimota…
Hues Of Brews – Artistic Poster Prints Of Beer
This article was written by Jared Schoenemann, a long time friend of Silodrome and the founder of the new “Hues Of Brews.” When possible we like to turn the keyboard over to the people…
The Peel P50 – The World’s Smallest Production Car
The Peel P50 was originally released in 1962 and sold until 1965, but it was put back into production in 2011 and it’s been in production ever since. Amazingly the little P50 is 100%…
The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth – A British Hatchback That Dominated Touring Car Racing
The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth was developed to get Ford back to its winning ways in Europe, with long time engineering partners Cosworth doing much of the heavy lifting. Despite a rocky start and its unusual looks, the Sierra…
A Jaguar V12 Engine Block Coffee Table
This glass-topped coffee table was built using a cast aluminum alloy Jaguar V12 engine block as its base, and it measures in at 100 cm x 60 cm or 39″ x 24″. The first Jaguar V12 engine…