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Articles that Ben 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.

The Redstone Pocket Knife – $89 USD

This is the Redstone Pocket Knife by the team at the James Brand based out of Portland, Oregon. It was designed as a compact…

1963 Ford Thunderbird Italien Show Car 9

This is the 1963 Ford Thunderbird “Italien Show Car,” it’s the only one of its kind, it was designed by Ford Styling and built…

The Porsche 906 debuted in 1966 as an almost complete redesign of the earlier Porsche 904. Both vehicles were two seat homologation race cars…

This is a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 finished in its factory-correct color combination of Grabber Orange over black vinyl upholstery, and it has…

This is one of fewer than 400 examples of the Marmon V16 engine that were made, it’s an advanced American-made design with an aluminum…

Ford Mustang SVO MGB Roadster Custom Car

This unusual looking car is based on an MGB Roadster, with the turbocharged powertrain supplied by a Ford Mustang SVO, and a slew of…

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This is the Ion Lamp from Portland, Oregon based company Schoolhouse. The lamp is closely based on Thomas Edison’s earliest electric lamp prototypes, simple…