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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* Updated* Can You Help Identify This? A 1939 Ford Custom Roadster Mystery Car
*Update* – We now have the story on this car thanks to some remarkable sleuthing by the folks on Twitter. The car was built by Paul Normand of Rochester, New Hampshire who was wondering…
A Highly-Detailed Fiat 1100 Driving School Cutaway Model
This unusual Fiat 1100 driving school model was made by Werner Degener to give driving students a detailed understanding of exactly how cars work – including an X-ray look inside the engine, gearbox, and…
Kaiser Darrin – The World’s First Mass-Produced Fiberglass Bodied Sports Car
The Kaiser Darrin is an unusual American car that is considerably less famous than it deserves to be. The Darrin was the first mass-produced fiberglass-bodied sports car in the world, meaning of course that…
For Sale: A Lada Riva Sedan – The Soviet Union’s Workhorse
In the West our knowledge of cars from behind the Iron Curtain is often lacking, largely due to lack of exposure or first hand experience. The car you see here is the Lada 2107,…
The Cobra Dragster – An 8+ Foot Long R/C Two-Stroke Nitrous Dragster Capable Of 70+ MPH
In the world of R/C cars there are your standard off-the-shelf designs popular with kids and adults alike, then there are the slightly more serious vehicles like this – the 70+ mph Cobra Dragster….
For Sale: An Alvis Sabre Light Tank – A Pandemic Proof Daily Driver?
This is an Alvis Sabre light tank and it’s historically notable for a couple of reasons, the most significant of which is that it’s directly based on the FV101 Scorpion light tank which holds…
Blundstone 510 – The Classic Australian Leather Boot – $190 USD
Blundstone has been one of Australia’s most famous boot makers for over 150 years and counting. Headquartered on the island of Tasmania the company supplied hundreds of thousands of boots to Australian soldiers through…
The Mini Jeep – A Drivable Gasoline-Powered Off Roader
This mini Jeep is modeled on the WW2-era military MB/GPW Jeeps from the early to mid 1940s. Just like the original full sized Jeep this one uses steel body-on-frame construction, it’s army green with…
Full Film: Master Hands – A Detailed Look At Chevrolet Manufacturing In Pre-WWII America
This is the first 4K resolution scan of Master Hands, a film described as a classic capitalist realist drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolet automobiles from the foundry to the finished vehicles rolling out of…
Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 Custom – A Distinguished Gentleman’s Cafe Racer
This Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 custom was built by Mark Hawwa, a man best known in the global vintage and custom motorcycle world as the founder of The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride – an…
Barn Find: A Rare Lotus Elan +2 130S/5 “John Player Special”
This is one of just 115 examples of the “John Player Special” version of the Lotus Elan +2 130S/5 that were finished in the same black and gold “JPS” livery as the Lotus Formula…
The Super73-S2 Universal Electric Motorbike
This is the Super73-S2, it’s the updated version of the original Super73, an electric motorcycle/bicycle that has become a common sight on streets from New York to Nice. The key to the success of…