Ben Branch
October 8, 2012
Nick Huber is a talented chap, we’ve featured his work on Silodrome before with a story on his beautiful Ducati 900 GTS a few months ago and so it was with great interest that I opened an email from Nick last week containing pictures of his newest creation, a Moto Guzzi in the spirit of the early ’70s Moto Guzzi V7 Sport.
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Ben Branch
October 7, 2012
White Heather I was a sailing vessel built at the turn of the 20th century, she’s a stunning boat and represents a pinnacle of not just aesthetic marine design, but of design in general.
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Ben Branch
October 5, 2012
The Grumman FM-2 Wildcat is one of the most widely loved warbirds produced during the second world war, the staggering toughness of the plane saw it survive merciless attack at the hands of the faster and more manoeuvrable Japanese A6M Zero.
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Ben Branch
October 5, 2012
In the days before Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even Silodrome, computers were a lot better looking. Though they didn’t have solitaire installed and it wasn’t yet possible to look at pictures of naked women on them. Not all progress is bad I guess.
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Ben Branch
October 4, 2012
The stunningly beautiful Decoliner is a Blastolene special based on the chassis of a 1973 GMC Motorhome and a cab from a 1955 White COE, that…
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Ben Branch
October 4, 2012
After last week’s post about mystery motorcycles I decided to follow up with more about the beautiful New Imperial v-twin ridden in this picture by Ginger Wood.
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Ben Branch
October 3, 2012
Steffen Jahn is a Stuttgart-based photographer responsible for some of the most capitvating automotive photography we’ve seen anywhere.
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Ben Branch
October 2, 2012
These stunning Benelli racers are custom built motorcycles were hand-built in Spain, they’re based on the 1975 Benelli 750 and each one is made according to customer specifications.
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Ben Branch
October 1, 2012
This unrestored 1967 Aston Martin DB6 is a great example of an original, untouched ’60s Aston. The car was delivered as a left-hand drive model direct to it’s owner in Manhattan in 1967…
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Ben Branch
September 30, 2012
This is a picture of Henri Rougier sliding his racer around a dusty corner at the Circuit des Ardennes in 1906. I have no idea why that car isn’t rolling over with it’s horse-drawn cart derived suspension and centre of gravity about 4 feet up in the air.
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Ben Branch
September 29, 2012
The classic Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 RS Touring is a highly desirable vintage racer, this is a 1973 model and interestingly it is production number #500, this is significant because only 500 were ever built.
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Ben Branch
September 28, 2012
Sadly I don’t have the name of the lady in the picture, we discovered that she was the first woman issued with a motorcycle license in Washington DC all the way back in 1937.
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