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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Swain Boots
Swain Boots are made by Rodrigo Luis Brito Mendes, a third generation bootmaker based in Lisbon, Portugal. Rodrigo spent most of his adulthood working…
Original Honda CB750 Press Bike
The Honda CB750 was released in 1968 by the Japanese marque to fill a request from their distributors in the USA who had been…
Cure Collection: Curing Cancer With Cars
The Cure Collection is a new release by Mason Watson, he’s been a strong proponent of breast cancer research after losing his mother to…
Icon 1000 Retrograde Jacket
The new Icon 1000 Retrograde Jacket is a solid addition to the growing number of jackets that use a full set of D3O impact…
The First Baja 1000 – 27 Hours to La Paz
27 Hours to La Paz is the story of the the First Baja 1000, a desert race that seems almost as though it was…
1940 Plymouth PT105 Pickup
The Plymouth PT105 Pickup was developed in 1936 as an alternative to the trucks being built by Chrysler – purely because every Plymouth dealer…
1970 Egli-Vincent
The Egli-Vincent has become a brand unto itself, it was all started by Fritz Egli in Switzerland in the 1960s – he was a…
Malle Navigator Case
The Malle Navigator Case has been developed as a modern version of the classic tank-mounted navigation systems used in years gone by, in races…
A Century In The Sky: A Timeline Of American Flight
A Century In The Sky is a timeline of the history of Boeing, the American aerospace giant that’s turning 100 years old this year….
Montesa MX Jersey
Montesa was started in 1944 by two Spanish friends – Pedro Permanyer and Francisco Xavier “Paco” Bultó. Although they initially began using engines from other manufacturers…
1965 Chevrolet Corvette C2
1965 was the third year of production for the C2 Chevrolet Corvette, and it was also the year that disc brakes became standard equipment…
H.M.S. Cardiff Bell
A ship’s bell is a central focal point on board, it’s typically used to sound out the time but they’re also used in heavy…