Ben Branch December 12, 2020

The Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 is one of the most famous engines of the 20th century and almost certainly the most famous of the Second World War – what a lot of people don’t know is…
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Ben Branch December 11, 2020

The Boeing Stearman Model 75 was the most prolific American biplane trainer aircraft of the Second World War, over 10,000 were built and they were the first aircraft flown by many of America’s WWII…
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Ben Branch December 11, 2020

We get a lot of emails every year from people who are curious what it’s like to run a website like Silodrome, and to find out more about what goes into it behind the…
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Ben Branch December 10, 2020

The Ford Torino Twister Special is an exceedingly rare car, just 90 were ever built and only 29 are now accounted for in the Torino Twister Registry. The most famous Twister Special is the…
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Ben Branch December 9, 2020

This highly unusual twin-engined Royal Enfield motorcycle was designed and built by Jimmy Enz of Lynwood, California in the late 1960s with one specific purpose in mind – to be the first man to…
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Ben Branch December 8, 2020

Editor’s Note: We don’t typically feature choppers on Silodrome as it’s not really our wheelhouse, however we do make exceptions to this every now and then for special bikes. For a brief time the JRL…
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Ben Branch December 7, 2020

Giotto Bizzarrini famously developed the Iso Grifo A3C as an evolutionary descendent of a car he had designed a few short years prior – the Ferrari 250 GTO. Bizzarrini’s life reads like a Hollywood…
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Ben Branch December 7, 2020

The Simpson M50 helmet is a 21st century reissue of Simpson’s classic 1970s-style motorcycle helmets, but it’s now built to current DOT safety standards using modern materials and methods. Many motorcyclists who ride vintage…
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Ben Branch December 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: Some of you may have noticed that this is the third “expedition across the Americas” type documentary that we’ve featured in recent weeks. This may be due to Covid-related cabin fever, however each of these…
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Ben Branch December 5, 2020

The Norton Classic is one of the rarest motorcycles ever made by the storied British marque, just 100 were built and today they’re considered highly collectible both for their rarity, and for the fact…
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Ben Branch December 5, 2020

This new t-shirt features the Silodrome logo over Japanese script that says “Gasoline Culture” – just 100 of these tees will be made, and the first batch is available for only 7 days. T-shirts…
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Ben Branch December 4, 2020

The Chevrolet El Camino SS was the high performance version of the standard El Camino – a car that had been released in the 1959 model year to compete with the successful Ford Ranchero…
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