Articles that Ben Branch 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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Oil & Leather Scented Candle
The Oil & Leather Scented Candle is the brainchild of Flying Tiger Motorcycles – the same folks who developed the Two Stroke Smoke Scented Candle that we featured late last year. The idea of…
Bandit 9 EDEN
Bandit 9 is a custom motorcycle garage that can lay claim to building genuinely unique bikes – a rare thing in and of itself. The head of Bandit 9 is Daryl Villanueva, a designer…
Icon 1000 Axys Gloves
The new Icon 1000 Axys Gloves have been designed for 3-4 season use (depending on your local climate) with a perforated back for breathability and high-quality French cowhide cowhide construction. The palms have quilted…
Land Rover Defender 90 Heritage
The Land Rover Defender 90 Heritage was a special edition series based on the iconic 4×4 platform that started in 1998. Land Rover occasionally created special Defenders to mark special occasions or as a…
Adam Ambro Designs Ferrari 330 GT
Adam Ambro runs his studio out of Golden, Colorado – he’s an architect by trade who creates a series of unique automotive canvases as a passion project. This piece was commissioned by Rick Bradner…
Lola F1R – Road-Legal Formula 1 Car
The Lola F1R is the result of a bet between Lola engineers about whether it was possible to build something close to a Formula 1 car, that would be UK road registrable. The UK…
MotoStuka + Biltwell Exfil-0 Tool Roll
The Exfil-0 Tool Roll is a collaborative project between MotoStuka and Biltwell, they made just 200 of them and once they sell out, they won’t be making any more. Each tool roll is made from…
Firestones and Broken Bones Tee
The Firestones and Broken Bones tee is a new design by the team over at Throttle Roll – a digital motorcycle magazine loaded with original stories and world class photography. The tee is a…
Documentary: This Is Nigel Mansell
This Is Nigel Mansell is a 40 minute documentary covering the Formula One World Champion’s foray into the American CART series in 1993. It was almost unheard of for a reigning F1 champ to…
1969 Chevrolet Camaro
The Chevrolet Camaro thundered onto American roads in late 1966, as 1967-badged models sitting on the new GM F-body platform. The Camaro was a direct response to the Ford Mustang, and like the Mustang…
2017 Jaguar XKSS
In early 2016, Jaguar announced that they would be restarting the production of the XKSS to complete the 9 cars that were destroyed in a mysterious factory fire in 1957. Jaguar had originally set…
Group B 30th Anniversary Art Box
The Group B 30th Anniversary Box is the work of Ricardo Santos, a Portuguese artist and art director whose work has been featured in Top Gear Magazine, on Motorsport Retro, RACER Magazine, and a…