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 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…
The Pulsejet-Powered Weltmeister Fictional Experimental Motorcycle
This article was written by Per Gabos, the creator of this rather unusual pulsejet-powered motorcycle. The Weltmeister Fictional Experimental Motorcycle The Idea What…
The Matra Djet V – The World’s First Production Mid-Engined Road Car
The Matra Djet V (pronounced “jet”) and it’s forebear, the René Bonnet Djet, have the distinction of being the first full production car with…
A Rare Arova-Porsche 212 Skibob – It Folds Down To Fit Into The 911’s Trunk
This is an original Arova-Porsche 212 Skibob, just a few hundred were made by skibob manufacturer Arova in 1970 for Porsche, and they were…
GRD Watches – Affordable Motor Racing Inspired Timepieces
GRD Watches have made a name for themselves in recent years for their unusual, motor racing inspired timepieces that are based on speedometer…
The Jaguar Pirana by Bertone – The Only One Ever Made
The Jaguar Pirana was designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, it was built at a lightning pace just in time for the 1967 Earl’s…
Urban BigBore Retro Full Face Motorcycle Helmet – $169.85 USD
[rwp_reviewer_rating_stars id=”0″] [rwp_box id=”0″] DOT testing requires that a helmet withstand two impacts on the same part of the helmet without failing, and they’re…
Track Day Weapon: A Custom Ducati 999 by XTR Pepo
The Ducati 999 was one of the most successful superbikes of its era in the Superbike World Championship – the model won the championship…
Retromotive Magazine – A Quarterly Coffee Table Magazine
Retromotive Magazine is a quarterly coffee table magazine that features some of the most beautiful automotive photography you’ll find anywhere in the world….
Documentary: The Douglas DC-3 – The World’s Most Successful Aircraft
Editor’s Note: The film we originally featured here has been removed from YouTube, we’ve replaced it with a similar film about the Douglas DC-3…