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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A One-Off Custom BMW R 65 Custom Motorcycle
Airheads like this BMW R 65 have become a popular choice with custom motorcycle builders everywhere from Paris to Perth and just about everywhere in between. It wasn’t that long ago that you could…
For Sale: A Historically Significant Ford Capri RS2600 – 1 Of 3 Pre-Production Cars
This is believed to be one of three pre-production examples of the Ford Capri RS2600, a car that would become a legend in its own lifetime after taking on all comers in the European…
The Mustang: A Short Film About The Ford Mustang I
The Ford Mustang is one of the most famous cars in the world, it sits alongside other luminaries like the Beetle, Mini, 911, Jeep, and Land Rover as vehicle design that almost everyone in…
The Car The Star Wars Landspeeder Was Based On: The Bond Bug
Although you may be looking at the car pictured above and wondering what it is, you almost certainly have seen one before. Well you’ve seen a vehicle based on it at least, it was…
For Sale: An Unusual Alpine A610 – 1 Of 818 Ever Made
The Alpine A610 would be the last hurrah of the small but celebrated French automaker, it would represent the ultimate evolutionary iteration of the car that started out as the Alpine A310, before being…
A Rare $8 Million Dollar Track Weapon: The Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione
The Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione is a car that very nearly never existed, it was hurriedly developed from the standard 275 GTB road car after the FIA refused to homologate Ferrari’s mid-engined 250 LM…
The 400+hp Chevrolet Aerosedan
This is the Chevrolet Aerosedan, it’s a one-off hot rod built by the legendary Ken Fenical, aka Posies, of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. In the world of hot rod building, the name Posies is well-known, it’s…
The First Automobile – A Benz Patent-Motorwagen Ectype – $60,000+ USD
This is an exact reproduction of what is widely regarded to be the world’s first production automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. It was built by John Bentley Engineering of England to exacting standards, so exacting in…
James Bond’s Most Elegant Car: The Bentley R-Type Continental
Although we most often associate James Bond with the Aston Martin DB5, in the 1961 Ian Fleming novel Thunderball his automobile of choice was a Bentley R-Type Continental, which he had rebodied from a wreck…
Dakota Waxed Canvas Bag By Buffalo Jackson
This is the Dakota Waxed Canvas Bag by the team at Buffalo Jackson. The design for this bag was modeled on an old vintage leather and canvas bag that belonged to their father’s college…
A Triumph Bonneville TR120 Owned By Bud Ekins (And Steve McQueen)
This 1970 Triumph Bonneville TR120 has a considerably more interesting history than most, it was first owned by legendary stuntman and off-road racer Bud Ekins before being bought by Steve McQueen through his company Solar…
Cammenga Tritium Compass 3H: Made In The USA – $100+ USD
The Cammenga Tritium Compass 3H is used extensively by the US Military as well as countless other fighting forces around the world, in fact if you’ve served in uniform there’s a high likelihood that…