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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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…
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…