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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A Time Capsule Condition 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser J60 GX HJ61 Turbo
The Toyota Land Cruiser J60 series was one of the most important iterations in the history of the globally renowned Japanese 4×4. In a way, this was the moment the modern Land Cruiser appeared,…
Aether Expedition Jacket – A Motorcycle Jacket To Cross Continents, Or To Cross The City
The Aether Expedition Jacket was developed by the Californian team at Aether specifically to be a 21st century, all-weather motorcycle expedition jacket. Aether was founded in 2009 by Palmer West and Jonah Smith with…
The Last First Corvette – 1953 Chevrolet Corvette #300
This is the last 1953 Chevrolet Corvette that was built, 1953 was the first year the Corvette was offered for sale which makes this car the last of the first Corvettes. Chevrolet first showed…
The Honda VF1000R – The Fastest Production Motorcycle In The World (In 1984)
The Honda VF1000R was the high performance member of the Honda VF1000 model family. All models had an advanced V4 998cc double overhead cam 16-valve, liquid-cooled engine but the VF1000R had a series of…
The Rossling Hydromatic C.01 – A German Watch With A Swiss Automatic Movement For $399 USD
The Rossling Hydromatic C.01 is an ISO 6425 / DIN 8306-specification dive watch made in Germany that’s powered by the reliable ETA 2824-2 / Sellita SW200-1 Swiss-made automatic movement – and it’s available now…
1975 Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 Safari – A Gentleman’s Sport Utility Vehicle
This 1975 Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 Safari was built to answer a single question – what would the 308 GT4 have looked like if Ferrari had opted to take it rallying to compete with…
Cortina: The Story of Ford’s Best-Seller
Cortina: The Story of Ford’s Best-Seller is a definitive book about one of the most important British Ford’s in history and a staple of the British working class from the 1960s into the 1980s….
For Sale: Mickey Thompson’s Original Challenger IV Buggy
This article was written by Rory Ward, the man who restored the Challenger IV back to racing condition and then took it back to the desert to contest the brutal Mint 400 desert race….
The Toyo Camber Top Tool Box From Japan – $32.00 USD
The Toyo Camber Top Tool Box has developed a great reputation as the ideal home tool box, each one is made from a single sheet of stamped, high quality steel and then coated with…
Documentary: The First Corvettes Being Built – Circa 1953
This film shows the first Corvettes being built in 1953, just 300 were painstakingly made by hand that year as Chevrolet ramped up for larger production figures in 1954. All 1953 Corvettes were Polo…
16 Feet Long + 7 Feet Wide – A 1:32 Scale Formula 1 Slot Car Racetrack
This 1:32 scale Formula 1 slot car racetrack was built by Slot Mods Raceways based in Detroit, Michigan on special order by the Formula 1 organisation. It was shipped to every grand prix in…
1974 Cheney Suzuki TM400 MX – From A Deathtrap To A Dominant Race Winner
The Cheney Suzuki TM400 MX is the result of (arguably) the world’s best motorcycle frame maker taking on (again, arguably) the worst handling motocross motorcycle of all time, and turning it into a race…