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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70s Icon For Sale: A 1971 Ford Ranchero Country Squire
This is a 1971 Ford Ranchero Country Squire, an unusual vehicle even by the already offbeat standards of the 1970s, and according to the…
The Industrial Design Research “FireAero” – 1 Of 30 Ever Made
This is the Industrial Design Research FireAero, it’s an exceedingly rare vehicle with just 30 believed to have been built by the Laguna Beach-based…
San Francisco Forest Circuit: A 1:24 Scale Carrera Digital Slot Car Track
This is a 1:24 scale Carrera Digital slot car track that has been built by a specialist from Belgium into a diorama of a…
A Rare Porsche-Powered 1959 Devin D
This is a 1959 Devin-Porsche D, it’s an American designed and built sports car developed by Bill Devin – it entered limited production and…
For Sale: An Unusual Honda N600 “Woodie Wagon”
The Honda N600 is undoubtedly one of the most important cars in the Japanese company’s history, it was their first automobile officially imported into…
A Rare Brazilian Sports Car: The Puma GTI
This is an original 1981 Puma GTI, it’s one of just 610 examples made by Puma Automóveis Ltda of São Paulo, and it’s become…
Art Or Spare Part? A Jaguar E-Type Front End
This is one of those instances when spare parts become sculptures in their own right. It’s a lightweight fiberglass Jaguar E-Type “clamshell” bonnet (or…
A Rare 1996 Toyota Mega Cruiser 4×4: 1 Of 133 Ever Made
Just 133 examples of the civilian version of the Toyota Mega Cruiser were ever made, they were Toyota’s largest ever production 4x4s, and today…
The New Huckberry x Timex Titanium Automatic Field Watch: $375 USD
This is the new Huckberry x Timex Titanium Automatic Field Watch, it’s a collaborative effort between American outfitting company Huckberry and America’s longest running…
For Sale: The “Forgotten” First Quad Bike – A 1970 Rupp Go-Joe
This is a 1970 Rupp Go-Joe, it’s been called the world’s first four-wheeled ATV or quad bike, having debuted over a decade earlier than…
Turbocharged! A Road-Legal California “Street Rail” With 300 BHP
On a pound-for-pound basis, this is likely one of the most entertaining cars we’ve ever featured on Silodrome. It weighs in at just 1,150…
A 1979 Dodge Magnum: An “Affordable” NASCAR Aero Racer – $30,000+
The Dodge Magnum of the late 1970s would become the final car ever made on the B-body platform, a platform that had formed the…