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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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…
For Sale: A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Project Plane: $9 Million USD
This Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is 80% restored and it’s now being offered for sale to a new owner to complete the project, with an asking price of $9,000,000 USD. All Flying Fortresses have…
There’s An Original Spitfire Straight-8 Engine For Sale
This is an original Chrysler Spitfire straight-8 engine from 1949, it has a displacement of 323 cubic inches, or 5.3 liters, and depending on specification it would be capable of up to 165 hp…
The Tiny Subaru 360 Was The First Subaru Production Car Imported Into The USA
While today we often think of Subarus as being either championship winning rally cars or tough all-wheel drive station wagons, the first car ever imported into the USA by the Japanese marque was the…
Film: The Spark Plug Story
This short film offers an excellent 15 minute history lesson into one of the internal combustion engine’s simplest but most important parts: the humble spark plug. The first patents for what we would today…
The Dodge Firearrow II: A Highly-Influential 1950s Concept Car
The Dodge Firearrow II was one of four influential concept cars built by Italian coachbuilders Ghia under the direction of Virgil Exner, one of the most celebrated (and most copied) American car designers of…
The New Bell Eliminator Stockwell Helmet
This is the new Bell Eliminator Stockwell Helmet, it’s a limited edition design by Charlie Stockwell, a name you may already be familiar with due to his extensive work in the custom motorcycle world….
For Sale: A Ford GT40 RCR Stunt Car From “Ford v Ferrari”
This is one of six GT40s built by RCR for the Oscar winning film Ford v Ferrari starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon. The car was built to 1966 Ford GT40 specifications for the movie with very…
One Year Only Model: The 1927 Indian Scout
Despite the fact that the Indian Chief tends to get more adoration from the general motorcycle population, it was the Indian Scout that did much of the heavy lifting on the early race tracks…