Articles that Ben 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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An Original Soviet Military-Specification Dnepr KMZ MV-750
The Dnepr KMZ MV-750 is the heavily modified Soviet-Ukrainian variant of the popular Soviet-era version of the WWII-era BMW R71 sidecar motorcycle. Most of…
Saudi Arabian Desert Find: A Rare 1961 Maserati 5000 GT Coupe by Ghia
The Maserati 5000 GT Coupe was built to fulfill an order dreamt up by the Shah of Persia, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He wanted a…
Short Film: Discovering An Apollo Astronaut Corvette For Sale On A Used Car Lot For $3,230
This short film by Michael Brown of Corvette Nation tells the story of Corvette collector Danny Reed, and his greatest ever discovery – an…
The Auto Fabrica Yamaha SR500 Type 7G – A Minimalist Scram Africa Desert Racer
This article was written by Bujar Muharremi, the co-founder of AutoFabrica. When possible we like to bring you the story of a custom build…
A 430 BHP Corvette-Engined Land Rover Series 2A
When the Land Rover Series 2A was first released in 1961 the engineers behind it would have had no idea that almost 60 years…
The Film Classic Car Poster by Rear View Prints – Can You Name Them All?
The Film Classic Car poster by Rear View Prints has quickly become one of their most popular designs, it features 15 iconic cars from…
The Toma Customs Yamaha SR400 – A Minimalist Daily Rider
On this project, our customer (Benjamin) first idea was to turn his Yamaha SR 400 into a British style “Between the Wars” inspired custom bike. He would use it mainly for his daily rides in Brussels to commute from home to his work at the European Commission.
Icon D3O Vest – 21st Century Spine + Back Protection – $225 USD
[rwp_users_rating_stars id=”0″] [rwp_box id=”0″] D3O (pronounced “dee three oh”) is a modern viscoelastic body armor used by the armed forces, world class athletes, motorcyclists,…
The Lotus C-01 – A Rare 200 hp Superbike – Only 100 Were Ever Made
Only 100 examples of the Lotus C-01 were built, it was a motorcycle that appeared to come out of nowhere in 2014 when…
An Original 1980s-Era OutRun Arcade Game by SEGA
This is an original SEGA OutRun Arcade Game from the mid-1980s. OutRun was the most successful SEGA arcade cabinet of the 1980s. It’s been…
1957 Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk II – The Aston That Can’t Be Killed
This unique Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk II is one of the most well-known surviving examples of its model line, it’s taken part in the…
Lum-Tec M82 – An American Watch With A Swiss Automatic Movement
The Lum-Tec M82 is limited to 100 units worldwide, each is carefully assembled in Ohio with a Swiss-made automatic mechanical movement, and each…