Carroll Shelby

Reading time: less than a minute | Written by Ben Branch | May 12th 2012

I don’t think I’m a celebrity. I’m just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

Carroll Shelby

January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012

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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.

Published by Ben Branch - May 12th 2012

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