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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Icon Joker WP Boots – All-Weather Waterproof Motorcycle Boots
Icon is based in Portland, Oregon and as a result the company’s employees are all experienced at riding in the rain. They developed…
1963 Corvette Grand Sport by The Duntov Motor Company
In 2009 GM awarded an exclusive licensing agreement to The Duntov Motor Company to bring the legendary 1963 Corvette Grand Sport back to life,…
Scuderia Condor T-Shirt – 25% Of Proceeds Go To Semper Fi & America’s Fund
This is the new Scuderia Condor t-shirt from Silodrome, we worked closely with a talented artist to capture the hand-drawn quality of the…
The AMC Eagle – The Original American 4×4 Crossover
The AMC Eagle was released in 1979 as a Hail Mary for American Motors Corporation, the struggling American automaker that was on the…
The Icon Poster Series by ATR LAB
This is the new Icon Poster series by Jean-Denis Claessens, the founder of ATR LAB and a rally driver with 25 years of experience…
Documentary: Porsche 356 – Made by Hand – Featuring Ferdinand “Ferry” Porsche
This documentary was created to showcase the engineering that went into each new Porsche in the 1960s, it was specifically made for the…
Officially Licensed Porsche 911 Flat-Six Engine Model
This is a detailed model of the original 1966 Porsche 911 flat-six engine, all internal parts move just like they do in the…
Steyr-Puch Haflinger Series II – The Mini 4×4 Austrian Mountain Goat
The Steyr-Puch Haflinger was developed in Austria to replace the ageing WWII-era Jeep, these Jeeps had been used by the Austrian armed forces…
The Fuoriserie Rosso Red – A Watch Made From A Ferrari 348 – $318 USD
This is the Fuoriserie Rosso Red, it’s a wristwatch developed by Italian-Australian David Giammetta that has a dial made from a the bodywork…
Royal Enfield Interceptor “Desert Runner” by Revival Cycles
The Desert Runner is one of the most consequential custom motorcycles built by the team at Revival Cycles, in order to build it…
North American T-28 Trojan Bent Propeller Blade Table
This table was made using three damaged propellers from a North American T-28 Trojan – they were almost certainly damaged from a belly landing…
The Mazda Cosmo Sport – The World’s First Mass-Produced Twin Rotary Sports Car
This is a rare Mazda Cosmo Sport Series I, just 343 of these were made and they were the world’s first mass-production sports…