Ben has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, 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 millions of readers around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
Ben Branch
December 22, 2020
The 100% Barstow Rat Race Goggles were inspired by the classic hare & hound desert races of the 1960s and 1970s that took place mostly in Southern California. Men like Bud Ekins and Steve McQueen…
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Ben Branch
December 21, 2020
This post was written by Mike Gustafson at Monnom Customs. When possible we like to bring you the story of a custom motorcycle in the words of the people who built it, to cut…
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Ben Branch
December 21, 2020
Motor Mugs is a brand new UK company that offer a selection of mugs containing some forgotten cars from years gone by, it was founded by Chris Pollitt who is also the founder of Not…
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Ben Branch
December 20, 2020
This hour long instructional film contains a series of off-road driving lessons by the team behind the Camel Trophy – arguably the world’s most famous off-road expedition/competition. In the film you’ll find 10 vitally…
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Ben Branch
December 19, 2020
This 1979 Chevrolet Van is one of just six that were built and licensed by Universal Studios to Hollywood Productions Inc. to promote the TV series throughout the U.S. and Canada from 1983 to 1987. The vans…
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Ben Branch
December 19, 2020
The engine you see here occupies a special place in Corvette history, it’s the first production LT5 engine that was manufactured by Mercury Marine for the C4 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1. The LT5 V8 engine…
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Ben Branch
December 18, 2020
This car was Mickey Thompson’s personal daily driver back in the mid-1960s, it’s a rare Corvette Z06 “Tanker” – essentially a factory-built race car that could be ordered as an option package for an…
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Ben Branch
December 18, 2020
This is an ordinal Nardi steering wheel from a 1971 Ferrari Daytona, it has an estimated hammer price of £1,500 to £2,000 ($2,004 to $2,672 USD) making it reasonably affordable as far as vintage Ferrari…
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Ben Branch
December 17, 2020
This is a rare 1942 Indian Big Base Scout racer, it’s thought that just seven of these were built for this model year and all of them were technically illegal. The skunk works division…
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Ben Branch
December 17, 2020
The Litelok Moto 108 was developed by a former Rolls-Royce aeronautical engineer with over 30 years of industrial design experience to solve one key problem – how do you keep your bike secure in…
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Ben Branch
December 17, 2020
The Opel Lotus Omega Type 104 was the second fastest production four-door car in the world when it was released in 1990, with a top speed of 177 mph – enough to embarrass many supercars….
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Ben Branch
December 16, 2020
This expansive collection of artifacts all belonged to Robert Pirsig, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book that has become a must-read for many motorcyclists around the world. The book…
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