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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No Ordinary Passenger
No Ordinary Passenger is a short film directed by Cabel Hopkins that takes a look into the life and times of iconic sidecar racer…
Continental MkII
The Continental MkII was released in 1955 as the pinnacle of the Ford model family and a return to the heady pre-WWII days of…
1957 Sputnik-1 Prototype Test Model
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik-1 on October the 5th, 1957 and in so doing kicked the Space Race into high gear – where it…
1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans Am
The Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans Am was built with a very specific task in mind – Ford wanted to trounce the Chevrolet Camaros…
Survival Belt
The Survival Belt by SlideBelts is a survival tool that’ll also hold up your jeans – the buckle contains a locking/folding titanium nitride coated AUS-8…
Council Jersey Classic Axe
The Jersey Classic Axe by Council Tool has a 36″ hickory handle and a 3.5 lb head with a Rockwell hardness of 48-55. It’s been…
The Breakfast Club Series
The Breakfast Club is a new series by Blackbird Automotive, a Hong Kong based company that features both the Blackbird Heritage Motorworks garage and…
12.4 Litre Radial-Engined 1939 Plymouth Pickup
Dropping a 12.4 litre Jacobs R-755 radial engine into a 1939 Plymouth pickup truck seems like the sort of thing you might do if…
1965 Jaguar E-Type Roadster
The Jaguar E-Type was released in 1961 to unanimous praise from both the motoring media and the general public. At the time most sports…
Autodromo Group B Evoluzione
The Autodromo Group B Evoluzione series of automatic watches is limited to just 200 units – in deference to the 200 vehicle homologation requirement…
XTR Pepo Ducati Monster 1200 S
Although it might be a controversial thing to say, I think the Ducati Monster is probably the most important motorcycle ever built by the…
Oru Folding Kayak
The Oru Kayak has an origami-inspired design that allows it to be folded down into a box that measures in at 33 inches x…