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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1963 Maserati Series I Sebring
Only 593 of the Giovanni Michelotti designed 1963 Maserati Series I Sebrings were built between 1962 and 1969, the coupe was named in honour…
Watch Fold
Watch collecting is a pastime (probably an affliction) that many of us subscribe to, the age of the internet has made it remarkably simple…
Documentary: Jim Clark – The Quiet Champion
“Jim Clark – The Quiet Champion” is a BBC documentary about one of Formula 1’s truly great drivers. Born in Fife, Scotland the quite…
Willys Jeep Cutaway
The Willys Jeep is a vehicle that I’d love to see make a comeback, the relatively small form factor of the design coupled with…
Ferrari Dino 156 F1 Sharknose
The Sharknose Ferrari is without a doubt one of the most famous vintage Formula 1 cars to ever turn a wheel in anger. Officially…
Ruste Custom Kevlar Jeans
Ruste Protection is a new company that produces custom Kevlar jeans for motorcyclists, you can send them your favourite pair of jeans and they’ll…
Icon Airframe Statistic Helmet
Riding motorcycles is a dangerous habit, most people who’ve been riding for any length of time will have stories about “offs” they’ve endured with…
Vismaior Motorcycles
Vismaior 3D is a new company that specialises in helping people model their ideas for a custom motorcycle, without turning a wrench. If you…
Rally Navigator
Rally Navigator is a new and very clever way of creating roadbooks, an essential method of touring cross country used by Paris-Dakar competitors and…
Moto Guzzi Le Mans by Kaffeemaschine
The Moto Guzzi Le Mans is one of the most iconic designs ever to roll out of the Italian marque’s factory, first introduced in 1976…
ICON Land Rover Defender D90 LS3 V8
You’re looking at the new ICON D90 Land Rover fitted with an LS3 V8, as you can probably imagine (and in true ICON style),…
Full Film: Climb Dance
The film “Climb Dance” is an iconic piece of motorsport cinéma vérité filmmaking from 1988 by director Jean Louis Mourey. Using multiple cameras mounted…