I have this strange and long held fascination with incandescent light bulbs, I know they’re far less energy efficient that their LED counterparts but for some lighting applications, they just make so much sense.
This steampunk chandelier by The Milton Douglas Lamp Co. is the perfect light fitting for a garage, man-room, shed, bar or basement laboratory. In fact it kind of makes me want to open a bar just so I’d have somewhere to hang it.
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.
$500 for Glory – A LeMons Story is a 30 minute film that documents the exploits of an amateur racing team from Wyoming, with their junkyard Toyota MR2 and its home-brew turbo that was found…
The Allison V-1710 aircraft engine was originally intended for use in US military airships, it would later be used in a wide variety of aircraft during the Second World War including the original P-51 Mustang,…
There are few, if any, concept car series as famous as the Alfa Romeo BAT trifecta – three one-off cars penned by the legendary Franco Scaglione and built by Carrozzeria Bertone between 1953 and…
The Filson Service Boot was inspired by vintage military standard-issue boots, and just like its military forebears they’re designed to last decades rather than just years. Each pair of Service Boots has a thick,…
My friend Adam Lesley, whom I had previously built a Sportster 1200 Hooligan racer for, approached me with interest in building a flat track “framer” – a framer is a motorcycle with a lightweight frame designed for dirt track racing…
This is the Shelby Series 1 prototype, a test car for what would become the only production road car ever designed and built from scratch by Carroll Shelby and his team. Shelby became famous as…
