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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Fabien Oefner’s Disintegrating Cars
Fabien Oefner’s Disintegrating Cars is an art exhibition that opened at the M.A.D (mechanical art devices) Gallery in Geneva in late November. Rather incredibly, each photograph is compiled from hundreds of individual shots, painstakingly…
Deus BMW R100S Custom
This BMW R100S custom by Deus Ex Machina, the garage is world famous for their customs based on American and Japanese motorcycles but we haven’t seen many machines based on European marques roll out of…
Whiskey Poster by Jon Contino
This gallery quality Giclée print by Jon Contino features lyrics from the halyard shanty ‘Whiskey Johnny’, it’s printed on natural 100% cotton rag archival paper using special archival inks. The poster is offered in…
1938 SS 100 Jaguar 3½-Litre Roadster
This 1938 SS100 Jaguar 3½-Litre Roadster is one of the tidiest examples of the model we’ve seen in recent memory, many automotive historians consider the SS100 to be the best looking pre-war Jaguar and…
Victory Shawl Sweater by North Sea Clothing
The Victory Shawl Sweater is a classically made woollen sweater designed for use on Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, it’s the sort of thing that Robert Falcon Scott wore on his Terra Nova Expedition. Each…
Moto Guzzi by Officine Rossopuro
Officine Rossopuro is an Italian custom motorcycle garage with a long portfolio of stunningly beautiful bikes, this is their most recent offering and unlike many of their client-specified builds, this one is for…
Watch Roll by Worn & Wound
The Watch Roll by Worn & Wound is a carrying solution for people with 2 or more watches that they need to keep safe whilst travelling, each roll is made from a combination of…
BMW Custom by Kevil’s Speed Shop
Kevil’s Speed Shop was founded by Kevin Hill in England a few years ago and has quickly risen to prominence as the top custom BMW motorcycle builder in the country and one of the…
Stelvio Sunglasses Autodromo
The new Stelvio range of sunglasses from Autodromo have been designed to evoke the style of the sunglasses worn by drivers in the 1950s, each pair is made by hand from high-quality acetates and…
The Eagle E-Type Low Drag GT
When it comes to classic British automobiles, I think it’s probably safe to consider the E-Type king of the hill. In fact, one could probably make a fairly convincing argument that the E-Type is…
Driving Gloves by Dents
I’m not entirely sure when, but at some point around the middle of the 20th century, men stopped wearing driving gloves. I think this was a mistake and I’ve decided to see if I…
Max Hazan by Cinema Mercantile
Max Hazan is one of those quiet talents that occupies an out-of-the-way workshop and produces some genuinely extraordinary motorcycles. The filmmaking team at Cinema Mercantile have been working to find men like Max and…