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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Peak 1980s Home Furnishings: A Ferrari Testarossa Engine Coffee Table
This is a glass-topped coffee table built around an original Ferrari Testarossa Flat-12 engine. Unlike with many engine-based coffee tables, the engine in this case hasn’t been modified for table duties, and looks just…
Retro Home-On-Wheels: A Beautiful 1946 Spartan Manor Travel Trailer
This is a 1946 Spartan Manor, it’s a 25’ single-axle travel trailer that was restored between 2017 and 2020 in Prince George, British Columbia. It’s now in beautiful condition throughout and it’s being offered…
Garage Find: A 1968 Chevrolet Camaro – Same Owner For 50+ Years!
This is a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro convertible fitted with its matching-numbers 327 V8. It’s spent many years hidden away in a garage, and it’s now being offered for sale by the owner of 50+…
The Chef Knife Making Kit From Man Crates
This is the Chef Knife Making Kit from Man Crates. As the name suggests, the crate includes everything you need to make yourself a high-end chef knife at home, with an heirloom-quality, forged VG-10…
The 1988 TVR “White Elephant” Prototype Is For Sale
This is the TVR White Elephant prototype from 1988, it’s the only one that was ever made, and it’s powered by an Australian 5.0 liter VL SS Group A SV V8 engine producing 440…
The Flint and Tinder Selvedge Denim Trucker Jacket
This is the Flint and Tinder Selvedge Denim Trucker Jacket, it has a 13.5 oz 100% cotton selvedge denim shell with reinforced double-stitching throughout. This jacket is designed to be a four-season, daily wearable addition…
For Sale: A 1966 Ford Mustang Stretched Limousine
This is a 1966 Ford Mustang, though the wheelbase is a little longer than that of any factory-built pony car, as it was stretched and turned into a limousine in Australia in the early…
The “Porsche Jet Boat” Craig Craft 168
This is an original Craig Craft 168, nicknamed the Porsche Jet Boat, due to its uncanny similarity to the Porsche 993, which was the newest and most advanced iteration of the 911 in 1995…
An Incredible LS3 V8-Swapped Porsche 914
This is a 1974 Porsche 914 that has been given an impressive series of modifications, including the fitment of a 430 bhp LS3 V8 crate engine – over four times as much power as…
For Sale: A 627 BHP GM Performance 454 LSX Crate Engine
This is a GM Performance 454 LSX that started out as a long block, it’s now been built into a high performance crate engine by the experts over at Abel Racing of Midwest City,…
Sold As A Pair! A Set Of Matching Dune Buggies
This is a matching pair of dune buggies with tubular steel frames that were modified by celebrated artist Benedict Radcliffe, they’re based on VW Beetle mechanicals, and they’re both operable and fully-drivable. Radcliffe is…
Rare American Minibike: The “Skat Kitty” From 1965
This is the Skat Kitty, a minibike built by Projects Unlimited in Dayton, Ohio in the 1960s that had a clever folding design – allowing it to be carried in car trunks, boats, and…