Ben Branch
August 23, 2021
The Austin Champ was created in the years after WWII as the British answer to the American Jeep. Development started in 1947 and resulted in a unique four-wheel drive with a Rolls-Royce engine, all-independent…
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Ben Branch
August 23, 2021
The Breitling Superocean Automatic 44 is one of the newer offerings in the Superocean dive watch model family. Many associate Breitling with their popular aviation watches but they’ve been selling Superoceans since the 1950s…
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Ben Branch
August 22, 2021
This is the New Legend x Iron & Resin Super Scout II (SSII), it started life as a standard 1976 International Scout II that was rescued by the team at New Legend – probably…
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Ben Branch
August 22, 2021
This is a 1970s-era motorcycle safety film that’s narrated in English but appears to have been filmed in Germany and Northern Italy. The primary rider throughout the film is on a BMW R90S and…
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Ben Branch
August 21, 2021
This is the 1978 Pontiac Firebird that was used on the television series The Rockford Files from 1978 until 1980. The show starred James Garner as Los Angeles–based private investigator Jim Rockford, a down…
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Ben Branch
August 21, 2021
This is the Heimplanet Fistral tent, it’s the smallest and least expensive tent made by the German camping goods company, and just like its larger siblings it uses the company’s proprietary Geodeisc pneumatic structure. The…
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Ben Branch
August 20, 2021
As its name suggests, the Meteor 27 Litre V12 Special you see here is powered by a Meteor V12 – that’s the non-supercharged version of the 27 liter Merlin V12 aero engine from WWII that…
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Ben Branch
August 20, 2021
This is a Cosworth DFX INDY racing engine that’s been converted into a glass-topped coffee table, and it now has the eye-watering sticker price of $4,999 USD. Now that may seem like a lot…
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Ben Branch
August 19, 2021
There can be little doubt that this car is one of the best pound-for-pound entertainment propositions that we’ve featured here on Silodrome, particularly for anyone looking for open-wheeled fun with a sub-$9,000 USD price…
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Ben Branch
August 19, 2021
This is the Baak Moon, it’s a comprehensively rebuilt Triumph Bobber created by the European company’s new American base of operations. As a result it features a slew of WWII-era American design choices –…
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Ben Branch
August 18, 2021
This is one of just 750 or so factory-built 1969 Ford Torino Talladegas ever made. The cars were only built for a few weeks over January and February 1969, and they were said to…
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Ben Branch
August 18, 2021
This is the front end of the Ferrari V8-powered Spice Engineering SE87C coupe, it was raced by David Tennyson in the IMSA Camel Lights class and it was likely one of two or more front ends…
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