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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2014 Bell Custom 500 Helmet
The Bell Custom 500 series of motorcycle helmets has become the 3/4-face lid that all others are compared against, the modern helmet is based…
1983 Lancia 037 Group B
The Lancia 037 Group B was developed as the successor to the legendary Lancia Stratos HF, a car that even today – almost 40…
Laguiole Pocketknife with Pistachio Wood Handle
France’s Laguiole region has been renowned for its excellence in elegant knife making for centuries, each blade is handmade and features the signature Napoleonic…
1968 Land Rover Series IIA
This 1968 Land Rover Series IIA is probably one of the nicest non-museum examples to be found anywhere in the world, it was fully…
Buffalo Hook Belt by Wheelmen & Co
This is the new Buffalo Hook Belt by Wheelmen & Co. it’s designed with a brass hoofpick originally used by cowboys and other equestrians. Each…
Camel Trophy 1991 – Tanzania & Burundi
I’ve been making my way through all of the available Camel Trophy documentaries by year, last week I posted the hour-long Madagascar Camel Trophy…
1974 Porsche Carrera 3.0 RS
The 1974 Porsche Carrera 3.0 RS is a highly sought after car by collectors, the ’74 model year Carrera RS was fitted with an…
Survival Pod by X Stream
The Survival Pod by X Stream offers a small, easy to carry survival kit that contains all the essential things you need to survive, if…
Honda CB250 by Exesor Motorcycles
This custom Honda CB250 by Exesor Motorcycles is one of the most well engineered parts-bin specials we’ve ever seen here on Silodrome. It’s fitted…
Spidi Worker Wax Motorcycle Jacket
The new-for-2014 Spidi Worker Wax Motorcycle Jacket is an interesting meld of very old and very new technologies designed to solve the same problem…
1940 Mercury Custom Coupe
This 1940 Mercury Custom Coupe is far more than just another SoCal chop-top, it’s thought to be the first such car that Los Angeles…
Waxed Cylinder Bag by This Is Paper
The Waxed Cylinder Bag by This Is Paper is clearly influenced by the standard issue military bags of the Second World War, they were…