The VW Beetle is an astonishing motor car, the sheer production volume is mind blowing as is the number of ways the model has been customised. Perhaps the coolest custom VWs are the Baja racers, they’re fitted with race suspension, fat tires, specialist engines, bucket seats and roll cages, then sent out to race across one of the Earth’s most inhospitable environments.
I can’t tell you how much I want to join in, at least once.
Articles that Ben Branch has written have been covered on CNN, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, Autoweek Magazine, Wired Magazine, Autoblog, Gear Patrol, Jalopnik, The Verge, 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 well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
