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 Unimatic U4-GMT: An Affordable Italian-Made Automatic
This is the Unimatic U4-GMT, it’s one of the newer designs from the highly-regarded Italian watchmaker, it offers a 300-meter water resistance rating and…
Barn Find: A 1968 Dodge Charger Hidden For 43 Years
This is a 1968 Dodge Charger that remains in the hands of its second owner, who bought it in 1974 as a teenager. He…
For Sale: A Rotec 7-Cylinder Radial Engine
This is a Rotec 7-cylinder radial engine, specifically it’s the Rotec R2800 model with a 171 cubic inch (2.8 liter) displacement producing 110 bhp…
A California Weekend In A Meyers Manx
Somewhere in Los Angeles, in an older building behind a nondescript exterior, lies a secret Meyers Manx facility where there can be over a…
A Porsche M28 V8 Coffee Table
This is a Porsche M28 V8 sourced from a Porsche 928 that has now been turned into a glass-topped coffee table sitting on four…
30 Years In Storage: A 1975 Pontiac Trans Am 455 H.O. 4-Speed
This is one of just 857 examples of the Pontiac Trans Am 455 H.O. with the M21 4-speed manual transmission that were made for…
The Malle Tool Roll: With A Set Of King Dick Tools
This is the Malle Tool Roll, and unlike most tool rolls, this one can be ordered with a full set of King Dick tools…
A Coyote V8-Swapped 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback
This car started out as a notchback 1966 Ford Mustang, but it was recently rebuilt into a high-performance Fastback with a Coyote V8 pulled…
The Incredible Zeus Air From Uncharted Supply Co.
This is the Zeus Air from the team over at Uncharted Supply Co. It was designed as a rugged, portable, and compact air compressor…
A Rare 1995 Toyota HiAce Super Custom Turbodiesel 4×4
This is a Toyota HiAce Super Custom van from 1995, it’s four-wheel drive, it benefits from recent suspension upgrades, and it’s powered by a…
For Sale: A Ferrari F140 V12 Engine – 650 BHP
This is a Ferrari F140 V12 engine from a Ferrari FF. Interestingly this would be the largest road-going Ferrari engine ever produced at the…
Can You Help Fill In The Story Of This Mystery Car? The 1964 “HMMD”
This car is titled as a 1964 HMMD, it was built by a metal fabricator named Edgar Smith in the early-1960s, but it’s full…