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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Guy Martin’s Spitfire
Guy Martin’s Spitfire is a British documentary about the recovery and rebuild of a rare MK1 Spitfire from the French beach where it was…
Lancia Stratos
The Lancia Stratos, or more correctly, the Lancia Stratos HF (HF standing for High Fidelity) is a car developed by Italian design house Bertone…
Vincent Comet
The Vincent Comet was developed by Australian engineer Phil Irving in 1935 as a slightly lighter, smaller version of the British company’s far more…
Gerber Dime Multi-Tool
The Gerber Dime Multi-Tool is designed to be compact enough to be carried in your pocket on a daily basis, whilst also packing the…
Stuart Lewis-Evans Wallpaper
Stuart Lewis-Evans was an up and coming racing driver and good friend of the young Stirling Moss, this image was taken in September 1953…
Mercedes-Benz Unimog 406
The Mercedes-Benz Unimog is known for many things, but perhaps its most extraordinary achievement is that it’s won the brutal Paris-Dakar Rally by accident…
Retrakt
Retrakt was designed by Karas Kustoms to be the last pen you’ll ever buy, it’s made from 100% pure copper in Arizona and they…
Ferrari 212 Export
The Ferrari 212 Export was the successor to the hugely successful Ferrari 166, it went on to become an outright winner in many of…
Stamford Duffel by Weldon
Weldon is a small British company that produces classic bags made exclusively from from waxed canvas and high-grade leather. Each bag is individually made…
REV’IT Royale Boots
The new Royale Boots by REV’IT are part of the company’s expanding line of motorcycle boots that have been built to look as much…
Documentary: Scrambling For It
Scrambling For It is a late ’60s film about the popular and rapidly growing scramble races that were popping up around the country, the…
Triumph Scrambler by Anvil Motociclette
The Triumph Scrambler was released in 2006, it’s since gone on to revive a genre of motorcycles that had been largely forgotten and become…