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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Class 1/2-1600 Desert Racer
This VW-engined desert racer is the championship winning car from both the 2012 and 2013 Best in the Desert (BITD) series, it was built by Bunderson Racing and is now being offered for sale…
Land Rover – Safe Operating Angle 30°
The original Land Rover is a marvel of post-war British engineering, this period in British history is often derided from a quality-control perspective but I think it’s largely exaggerated. Some of the most beautiful…
Maple Motorcycle Jeans
My trusty pair of Maple Motorcycle Jeans have now been worn on 4 continents, on a wide variety of motorcycles, on an even wider variety of terrain. One of the reasons they’re my defacto…
Ayrton Senna’s Lotus 97T
Ayrton Senna’s first win was a borderline cinematic effort on a rainy Sunday afternoon at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, he was driving the Lotus 97T and the win would be Lotus’s first since…
Kawasaki W650 by Revival Cycles
Revival Cycles is a long time favourite of ours, the team of custom motorcycle builders based in Austin, Texas have produced some of the most eye-catching American customs in recent history. When we discovered…
Handlebar Field Guide
When it comes to motorcycle handlebars, I had no idea how much I didn’t know until I came across the below poster on Etsy. For just $15 USD the poster makes an excellent addition…
1955 Packard Caribbean Convertible
The 1955 Packard Caribbean Convertible represented the top of the line for the Packard Motor Car Company in the ’50s, the Caribbean exuded pure luxury with its iconic tri-tone paint work and rumbling 275hp,…
Flak – World War II Training Film
Flak – Evading Anti-Aircraft Fire is an official training film from the Second World War that taught pilots how to evade and otherwise deal with flak – from Europe to the Pacific and everywhere…
Marder 1A3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
The Marder 1A3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle is a German armoured personal carrier that’s been in development since 1960, the 1A3 version is the most common and includes a slew of improvements over the original…
Speedster Espresso Machine
On first seeing the Speedster Espresso Machine my first thoughts were that I needed to open a cafe, just so I’d have an excuse to buy one and put it on display. Then I…
Yamaha RD350LC
The Yamaha RD350LC is a motorcycle that was initially released in 1980 – just about the time the world thought the end of the 2-stroke was nigh. It was an evolved version of the Yamaha RD350…
Brass Knuckle Bottle Opener
This Brass Knuckle Bottle Opener by Drinique is exactly the sort of thing Hunter S. Thompson would have used to open his Pepsi. Or beer. Or anything really. It probably isn’t a bottle opener you’ll…