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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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…
Desert Racing Documentary: Toby Price And The Finke Desert Double
Finke Desert Double is a free 31 minute documentary about Toby Price and his goal of taking both the motorcycle and truck wins at…
An Original Porsche Helicopter Engine – The Ultimate 356 Outlaw Engine Swap?
It isn’t common knowledge that Porsche sold a significant number of modified 356 engines to the Americans for use in helicopters, including both the…
The Unusual Ner-a-Car Motorcycle – “Near A Car” In More Ways Than One
The Ner-a-Car, known as the Neracar in the United States, was a revolutionary motorcycle design from 1918 that could very well have forever changed…
A Vintage Grand Prix Pinball Machine From 1976 by Williams
The Grand Prix pinball machine was designed and built by Williams Electronics between 1976 and 1977. Over the course of this year they built…
For Sale: The Dalai Lama’s Own Personal Land Rover Series IIA
This was His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama’s personal daily transportation for 10 years between 1966 and 1976 in Dharamsala, India. Although the Dalai…
Fox Racing V3 Helmet – Featuring Fluid Inside™ Technology To Reduce Rotational Energy In An Impact
[rwp_reviewer_rating_stars id=”0″] [rwp_box id=”0″] Most modern helmets do a good job of absorbing linear impact energy but absorb very little rotational energy – studies…
Spidi Old Glory Motorcycle Gloves – Classically Styled Goat Leather Gloves
[rwp_reviewer_rating_stars id=”0″] [rwp_box id=”0″] When designing the Old Glory gloves the team at Spidi wanted to create a glove that could be worn by…
1:10th Scale Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Tamiya R/C Car
This is the 1:10th scale Porsche 911 Carrera RSR R/C (remote control) car from Tamiya, it was carefully developed to closely match the now…
The Shelby De Tomaso P70 – The Only One Ever Made
The De Tomaso P70, later known as the Ghia DeTomaso, was a joint project between two independent icons of the motoring world –…
No Ghosts – A 1935 Film About Chevrolet Chassis Design
No Ghosts is a somewhat unusually named 1935 film about Chevrolet chassis design. The title of the film makes sense once you’ve seen it,…
A Rare WD Denzel – An Unusual Early Austrian Porsche Rival
Austrian race driver and engineer Wolfgang Denzel began building his own cars in the years shortly after WW2 using left over VW Kübelwagen chassis…