Ben Branch
February 7, 2021
This film by Callum Gillies is about one of the strangest vehicles to ever turn a wheel on the icebound southern continent of Antarctica. Called the Mini-Trac, this vehicle looks like it was built…
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Ben Branch
February 6, 2021
With Honda’s recent revival of small displacement retro favorites, the owner of this Honda CB125 found herself contemplating a new Honda Monkey to celebrate her own 40th birthday.
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Ben Branch
February 6, 2021
These are Piloti’s Avenue driving shoes, they’re designed specifically for driving but they’re considerably more subtle than driving boots which allows you to wear them without looking like you’ve just stumbled out of the…
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Ben Branch
February 5, 2021
This 1913 Indian Board Track Racer was one of America’s first true superbikes, board trackers like this were capable of speeds in excess of 100 mph (160+ km/h) on the rudimentary race tracks that…
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Ben Branch
February 5, 2021
This is the Irvin Flying Jacket, it’s the direct descendant of the original Irvin Sheepskin Flying Jacket that was used by RAF pilots and aircrews throughout World War II. Interestingly these modern Irving jackets…
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Ben Branch
February 4, 2021
This is the 460 bhp BMW M5 touring car that was built for French racing driver Marc Sourd for the 1985 Championnat de France Production, the nation’s premier touring car championship. Sourd competed in every…
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Ben Branch
February 4, 2021
This is the Judy Mover Max, it’s a one-bag survival kit designed to keep four people alive for a minimum of 72 hours during a catastrophe or natural disaster. Survival experts tell us that…
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Ben Branch
February 3, 2021
The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona is one of the most important cars in NASCAR history, it was the first to break the 200 mph barrier and it proved so fast that its immediate successor was…
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Ben Branch
February 3, 2021
The I-500 snowmobile race was an endurance event held annually between Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada, and Saint Paul, Minnesota in the United States. The 500 mile long course was legendary for its brutality and…
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Ben Branch
February 2, 2021
This is the new Triumph Bonneville Scrambler named “Classic Legend” by the team at French custom motorcycle garage FCR Original. They’ve comprehensively rebuilt it into a 1960s-style desert sled in the spirit of the…
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Ben Branch
February 2, 2021
This post is part of a new series on Silodrome where we find interesting people from the automotive world and ask them to tell us about themselves in their own words. We’ll be featuring…
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Ben Branch
February 1, 2021
This is an original Bowler prototype built using the firm’s all-aluminum Cross Sector Platform (CSP) chassis, you can see the chassis itself in the image below, but long story short it’s an entirely modern design…
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