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 M274 Mule 1/2 Ton 4×4 – An Air-Deployable Weapons Platform And Transport Truck
The M274 Mule 1/2 Ton 4×4 was used extensively in the Vietnam War as both a weapons platform and a specialist transportation vehicle that could traverse exceedingly difficult jungle terrain with 1/2 a ton…
The New Fuel Greasy Jacket – An Armored Aramid + Denim Motorcycle Jacket
This is the new Fuel Greasy Jacket, it’s the latest release from Fuel Motorcycles – the Barcelona-based apparel, gear, and custom motorcycle workshop that also organise the annual Scram Africa ride across the Sahara desert….
For Sale As A Pair: A 1966 Plymouth Barracuda Drag Car With A 1965 Dodge C-500 Hauler
This is quite possibly the best vintage weekend drag racing rig for sale anywhere in the world at the moment, it’s a combination of 1966 Plymouth Barracuda drag car on the back of a…
The Remarkable Photography Of Anthony Ryan Schmidt
Anthony Ryan Schmidt is a talented 12 year old photographer on the autism spectrum who has amassed a following of thousands of people on social media who love his unusual, life-like images of miniature…
The Honda CT70 – Japan’s Biggest Little Dual Sport Motorcycle
The Honda CT70 was released in 1969 as a larger sibling to the hugely popular Honda Z50 Monkey Bike. CT was an abbreviation of “Cub Trail” which encapsulated the intentions of the new model…
Icon 1000 Brigand Boots – Daily Wearable Moto Boots With D3O® Armor
These are the new Icon 1000 Brigand Boots, they’re designed to be daily wearable motorcycle boots that are equally comfortable on and off your motorcycle, and unlike many of their peers they’re actually comfortable to…
Racing Documentary: $500 for Glory – A LeMons Story
$500 for Glory – A LeMons Story is a 30 minute film that documents the exploits of an amateur racing team from Wyoming, with their junkyard Toyota MR2 and its home-brew turbo that was…
There’s A 450 hp R-985 Pratt & Whitney Radial Airplane Engine For Sale On eBay
The R-985 Pratt & Whitney radial engine, also known as the R-985 Wasp Junior, was originally developed in the late 1920s and put into service in 1929. Over the course of the 1929 to…
The Ford Mustang Boss 429 – A Street-Legal Car With A NASCAR Engine
The Ford Mustang Boss 429 was created specifically to homologate Ford’s 429 cu. in. semi-hemispherical V8 engine for NASCAR competition. Ford needed an engine that could compete with the 426 cu. in. Chrysler Hemi…
Carroll Shelby’s Other V8-Powered British Roadster – The Sunbeam Tiger
There were two Sunbeam Tiger prototypes developed in the early 1960s, one was built by Carroll Shelby and his team and the other by racing driver Ken Miles. The original idea of building a…
The Peugeot Impitoyable Whiskey Tasting Set
This is the Peugeot Impitoyable Whiskey Tasting Set, the unusually shaped glass is designed to capture the alcohol burn while releasing the whisky’s aroma, and it has a metal base that chills the whisky…
The ZERO XP – A Futuristic Custom Electric Motorcycle by Untitled Motorcycles
The ZERO XP is a bespoke custom electric motorcycle built by renowned bike builder Hugo Eccles of Untitled Motorcycles in the USA. Hugo is a little different to the average angle-grinder-weilding garage Jedi, he’s…