Ben Branch
January 10, 2021
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…
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Ben Branch
January 9, 2021
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…
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Ben Branch
January 8, 2021
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…
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Ben Branch
January 5, 2021
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…
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Ben Branch
January 3, 2021
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.
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Ben Branch
January 2, 2021
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…
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Ben Branch
December 31, 2020
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…
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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 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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