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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Norton Model 18
The Norton Model 18 was the most advanced motorcycle ever built by the British marque when it was introduced in 1923. Unlike its forbears the Model 18 was fitted with a new overhead valve…
Droog Moto Concepts Honda CM400C Scrambler
Droog Moto Concepts is a new custom motorcycle garage based out of Arizona and run by an enterprising young guy named Max Droog – which kind of makes him sound like a character from…
Hedon Hannibal Leather Face Mask
The Hedon Hannibal leather face mask is designed to protect motorcyclists faces from small debris and airborne particulates – which can be very useful in larger cities or when on crowded highways. Each mask…
Tamarit “Ronin” Triumph Scrambler
Tamarit Motorcycles is a Spanish custom motorcycle and parts company who have turned out some of the best looking and most usable Triumph Scramblers we’ve seen over the past few years. Their builds are…
Ferrari F1/87 Cutaway Wallpaper
The Ferrari F1/87 gave the storied Italian marque its first back-to-back victories since 1981 – 6 years earlier. The car was so good towards the end of the 1987 season that Ferrari became favourites to…
1956 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
The Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz was originally introduced in 1953 as a limited-production luxury convertible alongside the Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta and Buick Roadmaster Skylark. The Cadillac was the runaway success of the group and its…
Sterling Silver Dollar Money Clip
This vintage Silver Dollar Money Clip was made by Liberty Sterling in the 1940s, it features a front mounted US Morgan Silver Dollar coin with the reverse being an intricate dollar symbol for holding…
Riva Ferrari 32
The Riva Ferrari 32 was developed as a joint project between two of Italy’s finest vehicle manufacturers – Riva and Ferrari. Just 30 examples were ever built, and due to their rarity and dual-name…
The Engineering of Star Wars by Hans Jenssen
Hans Jenssen is a staggeringly talented artist who was contracted by the team behind Star Wars in 1997 to create a series of hand-drawn illustrations of the inner engineering of various Star Wars vehicles…
Roland Sands Mojave Boot
The Roland Sands Design Mojave Boot is a new offering from the California-based company, they’ve been making a name for themselves for producing gear than looks like street wear but actually incorporates a large…
1967 Can-Am at Road America
The original Can-Am series, otherwise known as the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, ran between 1966 and 1974. Despite its relatively short life, it’s looked at today as one of the greatest racing series that ever…
1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition
The second generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is a car that many seem to either love or hate, it was made an icon thanks to its appearance in the 1977 cult classic Smokey and…