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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Pacifico Optical Blair Sunglasses
The Whiskey Havana Blair sunglasses by Pacifico Optical have handcrafted frames made from cellulose acetate sourced from Italy, with Italian-engineered 5-joint nickel silver rivet…
1956 Aston Martin DBR1
The Aston Martin DBR1 is likely to become the single most expensive British car of all time when it rolls across the auction block…
Bohemian Guitars
Bohemian Guitars is a small Atlanta-based company with South African founders, they became enamored with the homemade guitars that were being created in the…
1970 Ducati Desmo 350
The company we now know as Ducati was founded in 1926 by Antonio Ducati and his three sons, Adriano, Marcello, and Bruno, and it…
The-Marvel-Ous by Ludwig
Meet Riccardo Casarini The-Marvel-Ous is the work of Riccardo Casarini, an Italian motorcycle builder who grew up in a family of classic car restorers in…
Dunlop Vintage Racing Tires
Tire technology has come an extraordinarily long way over the past few decades, hundreds of millions have been spent developing better tire compounds and…
1964 Shelby AC Cobra 289
With 306 bhp and a kerb weight just a smidge over 1000 kilograms, the 1964 Shelby Cobra with its 289 cubic inch Ford V8…
Bell Moto-3 Chemical Candy Helmet
The Bell Moto-3 Helmet is essentially a re-release of the original helmet from the 1970s, however Bell have incorporated all of the modern safety…
27 Liter V12 Brown & Bassett Gentleman’s Racer
I don’t think there’ll be any significant protest when I say that speedboat design peaked in the mid-20th century. Of course, the materials, engines,…
Biltwell Overland Goggles
Biltwell’s Overland Goggles offer industrial grade anti-fog optics with two sets of lenses per set of goggles – one clear and one tinted. They’re…
The Only Iso Grifo 90 Ever Made
A Brief History of the Iso Grifo 90 The Iso Grifo 90 was built as a life-size wooden model designed by Marcello Gandini in the…
Ligne 24H Le Mans Driving Shoe
The Ligne 24H Le Mans driving shoe is a new design by Piloti, an Italian company known for making some of the best driving…