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 Nardi Classic Steering Wheel
The Nardi Classic Steering Wheel is a design that’s immediately recognizable to anyone with an interest in vintage motoring, Nardi wheels have been used…
DNA Garage Mazda RX-3 Race Car – 400 bhp Triple Rotor
This Mazda is a rotary-chimera of sorts, it’s a lightweight 1974 Mazda RX-3 fitted with a triple-rotor Mazda 20B engine producing 400 bhp. The…
Dimitri Coste – Heroes of the Indian FTR1200
Editor’s Note: The new FTR 1200 has now been released. You can click to see the Silodrome Cheat Sheet for the new Indian FTR…
Williams F1 Forged Magnesium Wheel Coffee Table
This is a Williams Racing race-used wheel that was fitted to the FW35 car in the 2013 F1 World Championship season. It’s now been…
1975 Ford Bronco Restomod – 302 V8 With Edelbrock Heads
The First Generation Ford Bronco The first generation Ford Bronco was something of a trailblazer, although it was the second to blaze a trail…
Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky – 93 Points
Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky is distilled through copper-pot “Coffey” stills that were imported to Japan from Scotland in 1963. Despite the similar name, the…
The First Shelby Series 1 – Carroll Shelby’s 600 BHP Personal Car
The Shelby Series 1 Personally, I think the Shelby Series 1 is a significantly underrated car. It was the only blank-slate road car ever built…
Homologation Specials Subaru 22B Shirt by DNBK
The Subaru 22B was built between March and August 1998 in very limited numbers to celebrate both Subaru’s 40th anniversary and the 3rd consecutive…
Full Documentary: The Story of MG – Britain’s Biggest Little Car Company
This documentary from the 1980s tells the story of MG, the mighty little car company that produced some of the most influential and popular…
First Issue: Bike EXIF x Craftrad Magazine
The team at Bike EXIF have just released their first ever print addition in collaboration with the high-respected European publication Craftrad. Bike EXIF is…
1954 Cunningham C3 – The Rare American Homologation Special
The Cunningham C3 The Cunningham C3 was to be the only non-racing car ever built by Briggs Cunningham and his team, and it only came…
The Vaktare M.G. Pilot Racer Jacket – Individually Handmade in Los Angeles, CA.
The Pilot Racer Jacket by Vaktare M.G. was designed as a modern motorcyclist’s equivalent of the iconic WWII fighter pilot and bomber crew flight…