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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The Danner x Huckberry – Vertigo 917 Gold Rush Boot
The new Vertigo 917 Gold Rush Boot is the result of a collaboration between legendary American boot makers Danner, and the team of world renowned outfitters over at Huckberry. Danner have been building American boots…
The Only Lyster Velocette In The World – Raced By Holly Varey
The photography in this article was provided by Douglas MacRae, you can visit his website here to see the prints he has for sale including one of this bike. The bike you see is…
Rowan Atkinson’s 1964 Ford Falcon Race Car Is For Sale – $76,000 to $89,800 USD
Rowan Atkinson is of course best known for his work as a comedic actor and writer, but what a lot of people outside the world of classic motoring don’t know is that he’s an…
Best Made Brass Flashlight: MMR-X
This is the MMR-X Best Made Brass Flashlight, it’s a modern LED flashlight designed to last a lifetime (or more), with a solid brass body and a brass bezel, interchangeable LED lenses, and a replaceable lithium-ion…
The New Defender Works V8 Trophy – A Low-Volume Production Model From Land Rover Classic
When Land Rover announced that the legendary Defender would cease production in 2016 it caused much angst throughout the motoring world, and no small amount of worry about what the new Defender would be….
For Sale: An Original Titanium McLaren F1 Tool Kit
This is an original McLaren F1 tool kit, it was made by French company Factom from titanium and finished with a titanium nitride coating which gave it a gold finish to match the engine bay…
GMC DUKW – A World War II Era Six-Wheel Drive Amphibious Truck –$25,000 to $28,000 USD
The DUKW, better known simply as the “Duck”, is a six-wheel drive amphibious truck that was designed to land troops and cargo en masse in coastal locations without usable ports, or with hostile combatants…
Tour The Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing With Don Garlits
Editor’s Note: The original film we posted here has been removed from YouTube, we’ve replaced it with this collection of highlights from his racing career. This is vintage tour film by one of the…
1980s Project Car – A Rare BMW 635CSi Koenig – $21,000 to $27,800 USD
As far as ’80s project cars go, they don’t get much more eclectic than this – it’s a 1986 BMW 635CSi with an original bodykit from Koenig that gives the car significantly more presence on…
Ever Wanted To Hit The Ski Slopes On A Porsche? The Arova-Porsche 212 Skibob Has You Covered
This is an original Arova-Porsche 212 Skibob, for the uninitiated it’s essentially a bike with skis instead of wheels that you can use as an alternative to skiing or snowboarding. Skibobs never really caught…
The Car With A Hand-Formed Copper Body – 1965 Shelby 427 S/C Cobra “CSX 4602”
It’s not everyday we get a chance to write about a car with a body made from hand-formed copper sheet metal. In fact in the 11 year history of Silodrome this is the first….
The Ellis – A Minimalist Pocket Knife From James – $99 USD
This is the Ellis, it’s a minimalist pocketknife/multitool from James designed to hold all of the things you need, and none of the things you don’t. James is an American company founded in Portland, Oregon…