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 Clark Fork Copper Flask by Whiskey Leatherworks
The Clark Fork Copper Flask by the team at Whiskey Leatherworks was designed as a buy-it-for-life item, it might just be the last flask you ever need to buy. Whiskey Leatherworks was founded in…
The Rare Land Rover Winter Water Wolf: A Defender For The Royal Marines
This is an original Land Rover Winter Water Wolf, it’s one of just 50 that are thought to have been built for Britain’s Royal Marines to be used in amphibious landing operations and extreme cold weather…
Trip Machine Escapade Pack: A 3-In-1 Motorcycle Adventure Luggage Collection
The Trip Machine Escapade Pack was developed as a single kit that can be bought by motorcyclists planning road trips, or off-road trips, and provide them with plenty of storage space that can be…
The Chevrolet Blazer Chalet: A Four-Wheel Drive Adventure Camper
The Chevrolet Blazer Chalet and its sibling, the GMC Jimmy Casa Grande, were only built in 1976 and 1977 in relatively limited numbers – it’s believed that just 1,800 were made and far fewer…
1965 Ford Anglia Sportsman: The “Mini Ford Thunderbird”
The Ford Anglia is one of few 1960s-era classic cars that’s immediately recognizable to many millennial thanks to the model’s inclusion in the Harry Potter series of books, and its on-screen appearance in Harry Potter and…
The Honda T500: A Mid-Engined Truck With A 9,000 RPM Redline
When Honda debuted the T360 mini-truck in June of 1963 it became the company’s first ever production automobile, beating the Honda S500 Sports by four months. The T360 was powered by a mid-mounted, double…
A Rare, Fully Functioning Marmon V16 Engine On A Display Stand
The Marmon V16 was a remarkably advanced engine by the standards of the late 1920s, it features an aluminum block and heads with steel cylinder liners, overhead valves rather than the more popular flathead…
The Bowler Wildcat: A Street-Legal Off-Road Racer
The Bowler Wildcat looks like what might happen if you injected a standard Land Rover Defender with six pints of horse steroids and left it alone in a weights room for three months. The…
Free Live Stream: The 2021 Goodwood Revival
The Goodwood Revival is one of the most important vintage motorsport events in the world, if not the most important outright. Held annually at the historic Goodwood Circuit in Chichester in southern England, the…
The “Ferrari Of The East” – A Rare Melkus RS 1000 From East Germany
Known locally as the “Ferrari Of The East,” the Melkus RS 1000 is a sports car that was made behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet occupied East Germany from 1969 to 1979. Just 101 were…
The Hodaka Ace 100 – A Revolutionary 1960s-Era Japanese/American Dirt Bike
This is an original 1968 Hodaka Ace 100, an excellent example of the influential motorcycles made by the unusual American/Japanese company back in the 1960s and 1970s. Taking the best of the British and Japanese…
A Jet Age Citroën H Van By Barou: One Of A Kind Vintage Camper
This is a Citroën H Van as you’ve probably never seen it before, with a custom made coachbuilt body by French company Barou. It was specifically designed as a mobile office and home for a…