The Tamiya Lotus Super 7 Series II 1:24 Scale Kit
This is the Tamiya Lotus Super 7 Series II, a 1:24 scale model of a car with one of the longest production runs in history, if not the longest outright. Lotus famously came up…
Classic Cars
A Pulse Jet Powered Jaguar S-Type by Bob “The Rocketman” Maddox
Bob “The Rocketman” Maddox is one of the most interesting people in the world of custom vehicle creation. He has single-handedly advanced pulse jet engineering from the somewhat primitive designs used by the Nazis in their…
The BMW 2002 Turbo – The First Turbocharged BMW Production Car
The BMW 2002 Turbo was the fastest and most desirable version of what was arguably the Bavarian automakers most important fast saloon car – The BMW 2002. The fundamental design ethos of the…
Paul Walker’s 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 FAM
This 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 is one of just two special “FAM” edition vehicles that were built, it was personally ordered by Carroll Shelby and it formerly belonged to the late actor Paul…
Iso Grifo 7 Litri – A Rare Italian GT Car Capable Of 186 MPH
The Iso Grifo 7 Litri was to be one of the fastest road-legal production cars of its time, with a claimed top speed of 186 mph. The car was an extraordinary achievement from…
The Black Ghost: Street Racing Legend – 1970 Dodge Challenger 426 Hemi Documentary
The Black Ghost: Street Racing Legend is a new documentary from the American Historic Vehicle Association about a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T SE ordered new by a man named Godfrey Qualls. This triple black…
A Rare Factory-Red Jaguar D-Type – Britain’s Le Mans-Dominating Supercar
The Jaguar D-Type is perhaps most notable for the fact that it was a car designed using some cutting edge aircraft technology (in the 1950s) that would defeat all who came before it…
The Baldwin Motion Phase III Camaro – A Rare Street-Legal 525 hp 1/4 Mile Killer
The cars built by Baldwin Motion were among the fastest semi-production cars in the United States in the ’60s and ’70s, they were so fast in fact that the DOJ and EPA shut the…
1 of 3 Ever Made: The Rare Ferrari 375 America by Vignale
Just three examples of the Ferrari 375 America were bodied as coupes by Turin’s legendary Carrozzeria Vignale in 1954, each of the cars was unique in its own way as they were built…
Silodrome’s Top 20 Cars Of 2020
Editor’s Note: For the first time in Silodrome’s 10 year history we’re publishing the Top Cars list for a year in early January of the following year. The reason for this is that last year we unfairly missed a car from the list because it went viral after we published the Top 10 in late December – so from now on we’ll do the Top Cars and Top Motorcycles lists in early January.
The Only De Tomaso Mangusta Shelby MkV Prototype Ever Made
The De Tomaso Mangusta Shelby MkV prototype is a little known historical oddity, but it very nearly became the Ford-badged successor to the Ford GT40 that would have been sold in Ford dealers…
The Renault 5 Turbo – The World’s First Mid-Engined Hot Hatch Production Car
This Renault 5 Turbo 1 is a rare original Marlboro livery team car that was driven in the European Championship R5 Cup – a race series that was a supporting event to the…