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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Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing
Mercedes-Benz produced 1,400 300 SL Gullwings between 1954 and 1963, of this number just 29 were aluminium alloy bodied like the car you see…
Borealis XL Kit Build Kayak
The Borealis XL is a kit build kayak developed by Pygmy Boats, a company respected as a world-leader in the design of wooden kayaks,…
Honda FMX650 by Ton-Up Garage
The Honda FMX650 was a supermoto produced by the Spanish Honda plant in Montesa from 2005 till 2007, and it was based on the…
Oil & Blood Chimp Tee
Steve Carter and Luke Andrews are a pair of blue collar boys from Las Vegas who have a deep-seated love of motorcycles and the…
This Is The Last Dam Run Of Likker I’ll Ever Make
On March 16th 2009, Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton committed suicide a few days before he was to be taken to a federal penitentiary to serve…
Toyota Land Cruiser FJ43
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a 4×4 that started life as a Jeep clone during the Second World War, before taking on a life…
Chevrolet Corvette L88 RED/NART Le Mans
I’m convinced that the third iteration of the Chevrolet Corvette, known informally as the C3, is one of the most beautiful cars to ever…
Iconic Racing Car Posters by Arthur Schening
Arthur Schening is an artist with a passion for vintage racing cars, we’ve featured his work on Silodrome before and it was hugely popular…
Triumph TR6 Tiger by Sartorie Meccaniche
The Triumph TR6 was introduced in 1956, and it would go on to be one of the most important and iconic British motorcycles of…
Suunto Elemenum Terra
The Suunto Elemenum Terra is a watch with capabilities far beyond the automatic Swiss timepieces we usually lust after, it has a built in…
4Style Leather Duffel Bag by Chivote
The new 4Style Duffel Bag by Chivote is designed to allow owners to wear it as a backpack, shoulder bag, messenger bag or handheld…
Seven by LC Fabrications
LC Fabrications is run by a quietly talented man by the name of Jeremy Cupp. Jeremy sends me an email every now and then…