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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1949 Lucky Strike Spy Camera
Between 1949 and 1950 the Mast Development Company worked on a pair of spy cameras for the US Military, both of the prototypes were…
The 2,000,000th Land Rover
The story of Land Rover has been a remarkably long tale of success, during a time in which many lauded British automobile and motorcycle…
Black Arrow Wild & Free Women’s Motorcycle Jacket
The Wild & Free Motorcycle Jacket by Black Arrow is a recent release in the rapidly expanding demographic of women’s moto-wear, possibly the most…
Jerry Can Hip Flask
The Jerry Can Hip Flask is such a simple and obvious idea that I’m a little annoyed at myself for not having come up…
The Magic Midget: MG Racing History
The Magic Midget is an early film from British Leyland about the MG Midget, a car that helped put MG on the map in…
Bluebird Wallpaper
On the 17th of July 1964, Donald Campbell shattered the world land speed record with an average speed of 403.10 mph (648.73 kph) across…
1934 Invicta 4½-Litre S-Type
Invicta was a pre-WWII British automobile company that didn’t survive the turmoil of the mid-20th century, it was a keen competitor with companies like…
Oto Cycles
Oto Cycles is a Barcelona-based boutique electric bicycle builder that is quickly making a name for itself, thanks to a tastefully designed model range made up of the…
1957 Chevrolet “Black Widow” Racer
The 1957 Chevrolet “Black Widow” is a car that was developed in the shadows of a looming ban on auto racing in the United…
Piston Table
The idea of using engines as the basis for furniture has probably existed since the first engine threw a rod and made itself an expensive…
Venier Customs Moto Guzzi California
The Moto Guzzi California is a motorcycle that should be significantly more famous than it actually is. The first California was released in 1971…
Provo River Fishing Co. Fly Fishing Wallet
Fly Fishing has been around for at least 2000 years, it was described by the Roman Claudius Aeolians in 200 AD, but there are indications…