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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Top 14 Cars Of 2014
2014 has been an extraordinary time for classic cars, a slew of new records were set for cars at auction and the market for…
B-3 Bomber Jacket
The B-3 Bomber Jacket first entered service with the US military in the mid-1930s – as aircraft became more capable and were able to…
Top 14 Motorcycles of 2014
Each year we put together a list of the most popular motorcycles to appear on Silodrome, we use raw traffic data to compile this…
Minimalist Wallet by Portel
We’ve featured gear by Portel a number of times previously and it’s always been very popular, the brand was one of the first to…
Cafe Racer Tee by MotorRad
Each Cafe Racer Tee is individually screenprinted by hand in the USA by the guys over at MotorRad, the tees are 100% cotton and are…
No Margin For Error
No Margin For Error is a 10 minute mini-documentary covering the 1957 Pikes Peak Race, it was produced by Socony Mobil as a promotional…
Pistol Packin’ Mama and the WASPs
Pistol Packin’ Mama was a B-17 Flying Fortress that saw use during the Second World War as a training aircraft for female pilots known…
Ford Marmon-Herrington Woodie 4×4
This Ford Marmon-Herrington Woodie 4×4 (or more correctly, Ford Marmon-Herrington Super Deluxe Station Wagon) is an exceedingly rare vehicle from the post-WWII era built…
Havana Polarised Sunglasses by Persol
Persol is one of Italy’s longest surviving eye-wear manufacturers, it was founded in 1917 to make specialised sunglasses and eye-protection for some of the…
Ducati 900 SS Imola
The Ducati 900SS Imola is the larger-capacity descendant of the now legendary 750GT-based Ducatis that shocked the world to take a 1-2 finish at…
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Owner’s Manual
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Owner’s Manual is one of those books that anyone with even a passing interest in aviation or cold war history…
Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans Am
The 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans Ams built by Bud Moore occupy a special place in the hearts of the Mustang-faithful – it…