This is Mike “The Bike” Hailwood racing at the 1978 Isle of Man TT, it was Hailwood’s comeback race and no one expected him to even place in the top 3 – after having spent 11 years away from the world of competitive motorcycle racing.
He went on to win the race in no uncertain manner, the 38 year old took first place aboard his Ducati 900SS and his win is still remembered as one of the most popular victories in the history of the Isle of Man.
The picture above was hand-drawn on 11″x 8.5″ archival red paper by Paul Chenard, interestingly, he didn’t use any red – all the red elements in the drawing come from the paper itself.
Chenard is a successful motorsport artist and he runs the website Automobiliart – where fans and collectors of his art can stay up to date with his new work.
Ben Branch has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, the official Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
This is a rare HKS Speedway Special from 1976, it was designed and built for Japanese Auto Racing – a form of motorcycle racing somewhat similar to American flat track racing but held exclusively on…
The Timex T80 is a reissue of one of the company’s first digital watches from the decade of big hair, synthesizers, DeLoreans, the Moonwalk, ALF, the Walkman, and Marty McFly. Digital watches exploded onto…
Although modern motorcycles have blessed us with reliability, ABS, traction control, heated grips, and much more, there’s still a lot to be said for the motorcycles our grandparents rode. Simple machines with carburettors, pushrods, air-cooling,…
This is the new MOMO x Hot Wheels limited edition steering wheel, it was created to celebrate the Hot Wheels 50th anniversary, each one comes with it’s own display box and numbers are strictly…
This series of seven prints by the team at Ecurie have all been hand-drawn before being digitized and offered as high-quality prints on 200 gsm uncoated art paper at 420mm x 297mm in size (A3)….
This is the Peugeot Impitoyable Whiskey Tasting Set, the unusually shaped glass is designed to capture the alcohol burn while releasing the whisky’s aroma, and it has a metal base that chills the whisky down…
