Ben Branch January 14, 2021

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 BMW…
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Ben Branch January 13, 2021

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 Walker…
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Ben Branch January 12, 2021

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 a…
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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 426…
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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 at…
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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 company…
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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 by…
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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 right…
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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 Formula…
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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 designs…
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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 on…
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