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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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 event from 1987 and so in keeping with the Africa…
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 all new aluminium-alloy engine with an increased output over the…
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 you should find yourself needing to make a go of…
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 with a Honda CB360 engine that’s been bored out to…
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 that people have been facing since the dawn of the…
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 ever saw and one of the first to be made…
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 also made of waxed canvas and had rope fasteners to…
The “Bullitt” Mustang
The “Bullitt” Mustang you see here was built by Gateway Classics for Chad McQueen (Steve McQueen’s son) in 2011, it was designed as a modern interpretation of the classic 1968 fastback used in the iconic…
Motorcycle Tool Roll by Union Garage NYC
The Tool Roll by Union Garage NYC is a new product from the New York based company, it’s designed to be an all-inclusive set of tools for metric motorcycles that’ll keep you on the road,…
Porsche 718
The Porsche 718 was the German marque’s evolution of the successful 550, the new car was developed largely due to changes in FIA rules in the late 1950s regulating things like windscreen and cockpit…
The Embassy Tactical Pen
The Embassy Tactical Pen is designed to be the last pen you’ll ever need to buy. Its 300 series high-grade stainless steel body takes a medium sized Fisher Space pen refill and is designed…
Yamaha Virago XV535 by Old Empire Motorcycles
This Yamaha Virago XV535 custom, dubbed “Bulldog”, is the latest two-wheeled release from Old Empire Motorcycles – a British custom motorcycle workshop that’s become famous for their work with Royal Enfields over the past…