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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Honda FMX650 by Ton-Up Garage
The Honda FMX650 was a supermoto produced by the Spanish Honda plant in Montesa from 2005 till 2007, and it was based on the bones of the highly capable Honda NX650 Dominator. We haven’t…
Oil & Blood Chimp Tee
Steve Carter and Luke Andrews are a pair of blue collar boys from Las Vegas who have a deep-seated love of motorcycles and the surrounding culture. They recently started Oil & Blood Garage as…
This Is The Last Dam Run Of Likker I’ll Ever Make
On March 16th 2009, Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton committed suicide a few days before he was to be taken to a federal penitentiary to serve hard time for moonshining. He was a mountain man of…
Toyota Land Cruiser FJ43
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a 4×4 that started life as a Jeep clone during the Second World War, before taking on a life of its own as one of the world’s toughest off-road…
Chevrolet Corvette L88 RED/NART Le Mans
I’m convinced that the third iteration of the Chevrolet Corvette, known informally as the C3, is one of the most beautiful cars to ever roll off of an American production line. In fact I’d…
Iconic Racing Car Posters by Arthur Schening
Arthur Schening is an artist with a passion for vintage racing cars, we’ve featured his work on Silodrome before and it was hugely popular – probably because all of us can think of a…
Triumph TR6 Tiger by Sartorie Meccaniche
The Triumph TR6 was introduced in 1956, and it would go on to be one of the most important and iconic British motorcycles of all time. The racing variant of the TR6 was often referred…
Suunto Elemenum Terra
The Suunto Elemenum Terra is a watch with capabilities far beyond the automatic Swiss timepieces we usually lust after, it has a built in 3D compass, altimeter, barometer as well as the standard time…
4Style Leather Duffel Bag by Chivote
The new 4Style Duffel Bag by Chivote is designed to allow owners to wear it as a backpack, shoulder bag, messenger bag or handheld bag – whilst still conforming to the size restrictions most…
Seven by LC Fabrications
LC Fabrications is run by a quietly talented man by the name of Jeremy Cupp. Jeremy sends me an email every now and then with news of his latest build, and it always takes…
Autodromo Driving Gloves
The glove compartment in most modern cars contains little more than a smattering of loose change, some dog-eared insurance documents and a half-eaten, long forgotten pack of Mentos – but it wasn’t always this…
Ferrari F40 LM
The Ferrari F40 LM is almost certainly the most red-blooded example of what many consider to be the most red-blooded supercar ever made. Ferrari introduced the F40 in 1987, it was to be the last…