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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MV Agusta Bol d’Or by Walt Siegl
Words by Walt Siegl. I always had a soft spot for the raw brutishness of 80s Endurance bikes, and I wanted to use an…
The Shop Rag Shirt by The Godspeed Co.
The Shop Rag Shirt by The Godspeed Co. is quite possibly the perfect shirt for use in the garage, each one is 100% American-made…
Ducati GT1000 by TTRNO
The Ducati GT1000 remains one of the best of the retro modern motorcycles we’ve seen in recent memory. With a kerb weight of 185…
Rolls-Royce V8 Coffee Table
Prior to the takeover by BMW in 1998 Rolls-Royce made use of the L Series V8, an engine that had been developed in the…
Jet-Hot Double Down By Fuller Moto
The Jet-Hot Double Down is a vehicle that you’ve likely seen before. This time however there’s some new information about it that’ll likely interest…
Porsche 356 by Claudia Liebenberg
Claudia Liebenberg is a talented South African painter whose work we’ve featured before, she specialises in the use of watercolours because it means she…
Horse Brand Company Naval Knife
The Naval Knife by the Horse Brand Company has been developed in the style of the knives used by Scandinavian sailors and naval men….
Up From Clay Documentary: A Car is Born in 1959
Up From Clay is an official General Motors film from 1959 that covers the process of developing a design for a new car, it’s…
Indian Black Bullet Scout
Indian released the new Scout earlier this year to much interest from the motorcycle community. It’s a smaller, lighter bike than the Chief and it’s powered…
Dirt Diggers Tee
The Dirt Diggers t-shirt by Moto 76 is an homage to the desert racers who went by the same name in the years after WWII….
Jaguar E-Type Competition Coupé
The Jaguar E-Type was never really intended for racing, despite the fact that it shared many design queues with the D-Type – its elder…
Datsun 510 Print
The Datsun 510 is known as the Datsun 1600 in much of the world outside of the United States and Canada, it’s a car…