Ben Branch
December 27, 2020
The Runge RS010 was hand-built by Christopher Rünge as a bespoke one-off sports car with styling reminiscent of late 1950s racers. Rünge is a traditional coachbuilder who only ever creates his own vehicle…
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Ben Branch
December 26, 2020
The Lister-Jaguar “Knobbly” was the most famous creation of Lister Motor Company, a small British sports car maker that was founded by Brian Lister in his father’s Cambridge wrought iron shop before going…
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Ben Branch
December 24, 2020
This is a full-sized clay Shelby Series 1 clay design model in 1:1 scale, it was created in the late 1990s as a precursor to the Shelby Series 1 production car which was…
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Ben Branch
December 23, 2020
This is an original Chevelle oval track race car that was campaigned in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Ohio by local racing legend Linda Landers. Landers was the first woman to ever…
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Ben Branch
December 22, 2020
This eye-catching Land Rover Defender custom does a great job of answering the question “what would Hue 166 look like if it had been built in the 21st century rather than the 20th?”…
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Ben Branch
December 19, 2020
This 1979 Chevrolet Van is one of just six that were built and licensed by Universal Studios to Hollywood Productions Inc. to promote the TV series throughout the U.S. and Canada from 1983 to 1987. The…
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Ben Branch
December 18, 2020
This car was Mickey Thompson’s personal daily driver back in the mid-1960s, it’s a rare Corvette Z06 “Tanker” – essentially a factory-built race car that could be ordered as an option package for…
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Ben Branch
December 17, 2020
The Opel Lotus Omega Type 104 was the second fastest production four-door car in the world when it was released in 1990, with a top speed of 177 mph – enough to embarrass many…
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Ben Branch
December 15, 2020
The original Ford Bronco is one of the most important and beloved American 4x4s of its era, in more recent years it’s become common to see restomodded examples of the Bronco – vehicles…
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Ben Branch
December 11, 2020
We get a lot of emails every year from people who are curious what it’s like to run a website like Silodrome, and to find out more about what goes into it behind…
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Ben Branch
December 10, 2020
The Ford Torino Twister Special is an exceedingly rare car, just 90 were ever built and only 29 are now accounted for in the Torino Twister Registry. The most famous Twister Special is…
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Ben Branch
December 7, 2020
Giotto Bizzarrini famously developed the Iso Grifo A3C as an evolutionary descendent of a car he had designed a few short years prior – the Ferrari 250 GTO. Bizzarrini’s life reads like a…
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