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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Silodrome’s Top 20 Motorcycles Of 2020
Editor’s Note: For the first time in Silodrome’s 10 year history we’re publishing the Top Cars list for a year in January of the following year. The reason for this is that last year…
For Sale: 1995 Ferrari 412 T2 Formula 1 Monocoque – Ex-Gerhard Berger
This is the monocoque of a Ferrari 412 T2 Formula 1 car driven by Gerhard Berger in 1995. Modern Formula 1 cars all use a similar structure that centers around a carbon fibre…
The Famous Holman Moody Mustang Raced By Cristobal “Batman” Galjuf In South America
The Mustang you’re looking at here has South American DNA running through its veins, it was built at the Ford Motor Company’s factory in Lima, Peru and it became one of the most successful…
Unimatic U1-FDN – An Italian-Made Automatic Mechanical Dive Watch – $775 USD
This is the new Unimatic U1-FDN, it’s an Italian-made automatic mechanical dive watch designed to match or surpass the specification of many far more expensive watches, while costing a far more affordable $775 USD….
Twin-Engined 4×4 Desert Racing Prototype: Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti Bimotore 4×4 Wainer
This is the 1974 Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti Bimotore 4×4 Wainer, it was developed at Alfa Romeo as a potential desert racer for the Italian company, to take part in brutal off-road events like…
Louis Charles Motorcycle Gloves by Christophe Fenwick
These are the Louis Charles motorcycle gloves by Christophe Fenwick, they were designed for winter use and developed in the style of the gloves and jackets worn by pilots and airmen of the…
A Rare 1985 BMW R80 G/S Paris-Dakar – 1 of 200 Ever Made
This is a rare 1985 BMW R80 G/S Paris-Dakar, just 200 were built to this specification in celebration of BMW’s continued success at the world’s toughest race – the Paris-Dakar Rally. BMW released…
Station Wagon Sleeper: A 300 hp 5.5 Litre V8 Mercedes-Benz 560 TEL Estate Custom
This is one of the most discreet sleepers we’ve seen in recent memory, it was built by Hamburg-based coachbuilding outfit Caro International GmBH in the 1990s using a Mercedes-Benz W126 560 SEL as…
Halley R-Lamp – Made From A Classic BMW R Series Motorcycle Headlight
This is the new Halley R-Lamp, each is made by hand from a classic BMW R series motorcycle headlight, and each still carries the years of patina from its former life illuminating the…
An Unusual Rally Racer: Land Rover Defender 90 Challenge Built By Bowler
The Land Rover Defender is likely not the first vehicle you think of when you hear the term “rally car” but that’s exactly what this 2013 Defender 90 is. Not only is it…
The Tamiya Lotus Super 7 Series II 1:24 Scale Kit
This is the Tamiya Lotus Super 7 Series II, a 1:24 scale model of a car with one of the longest production runs in history, if not the longest outright. Lotus famously came up…
Documentary: The Devil At Your Heels – The Man Who Attempted To Jump A Car From Canada Into The USA
The Devil At Your Heels is a 1981 documentary about stuntman Ken Carter and his years long mission to build a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental and jump it a distance of one mile across…