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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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…
Dickie Stoop’s 1939 Frazer Nash-BMW 328
The 1939 Frazer Nash-BMW 328 you see here wasn’t actually completed until 1946 – it had been ordered as a rolling chassis by the…
Typewriter Gun Sculptures
This series of Typewriter Guns by Canadian artist Éric Nado immediately bring the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword” to mind, particularly…
Documentary: Chrysler Turbine Car World Tour
This film documents the Chrysler Turbine Car World Tour of the early 1960s, it was a time when the American automaker was experimenting in…
1949 Harley-Davidson FL Panhead
A Brief History of the Harley-Davidson FL Panhead The Harley-Davidson FL series was introduced in 1941, originally fitted with the Knucklehead V-twin and leading-link front…
1964 Lotus Type 34
The Lotus Type 34 would go on to become the winningest Lotus Indy car ever built, an impressive feat given that it was only…