Mat armstrong

[limmy01]

Started watching Mat armstrong on YouTube. Lad from my city who buys crash damage cars and documents the build to get them back on the road. Currently over in America working on a GT3...

Quite a good watch

https://youtu.be/oB0d9xxE1Hw

[RZ1]

I started to watch his bmw 635csi videos but they have not been updated on a while

[rigga]

Must be some money involved in what he does, doesn't sell any of his cars he rebuilds, and has a nice house on the back of his efforts too.

Enjoy his channel.

[Easternlight]

Found his channel at Christmas, got to admire his enthusiasm and abilities.
The repairs to the M5 and now this GT3 are not for the faint hearted and the money he has to put up is not pocket money!
He does appear to be doing quite nicely out of it.

[jonamv8]

Hes smashing it, especially financially

[LeighW]

jonamv8 said:

Hes smashing it, especially financially

He did a video showing how he got to where he is, fair play to him. Nice to see a local lad doing well too.

[Muzzer79]

I too found the channel over Christmas and I like it

He has a good, non-annoying way about him and does some interesting rebuilds

[bompey]

Another fan here. Started watching his Cayman rebuild which was impressive.

[VictorSeven]

Another fan, he comes across very well, it’s hard not to like him and his videos

[Shrugging for victory]

I'm a fan, I like how he presents, as he comes across as nice bloke. It's amazing watching him fumble his way through these exotic builds. Absolute respect to him for making it through all his hard work.

[InformationSuperHighway]

Pop into the Automotive vlogger thread, his channel and each video is discussed at length over there

[bobbo89]

He cropped up on my YT what with the algorithms having done their thing and yeah, agree with everyone in that I like the guy. Instantly likeable, doesn't appear arrogant at all and just appears to enjoy what he's doing, subbed straight away.

He's also one brave fker, I know that's what it takes in the YT world to get the views, likes and subs to boost your channel but he's taking on some big stuff for a guy who's learning as he goes....

[toasty]

He's moved on a bit since he first appeared on screen.

[Doofus]

RZ1 said:

I started to watch his bmw 635csi videos but they have not been updated on a while

I suspect he quickly found that car restoration and accident repair are not the same thing.

[Muzzer79]

Doofus said:

RZ1 said:

I started to watch his bmw 635csi videos but they have not been updated on a while

I suspect he quickly found that car restoration and accident repair are not the same thing.

To be fair to him, I get the impression that opportunities came along with the Murcielago and Porsche in particular, that he had to take there and then.

He'll have a lot of money tied up in those projects, so it's logical that they get priority.

[wpa1975]

Muzzer79 said:

To be fair to him, I get the impression that opportunities came along with the Murcielago and Porsche in particular, that he had to take there and then.

He'll have a lot of money tied up in those projects, so it's logical that they get priority.

Really, over 1 million views per video and lots of sponsors, doubt he has much money tied up.

[Shrugging for victory]

Slightly OT, I noticed that Chris Slix' neighbours have decided to move 😂 I can imagine that it's not a great experience living nextdoor to a workshop.

[Muzzer79]

wpa1975 said:

Really, over 1 million views per video and lots of sponsors, doubt he has much money tied up.

I think he said that the Murcielago was around £100k to buy. He's then had to spend on the rebuild.

The Porsche was over $200k. Plus he must have dropped at least $75k in travel and parts so far.

The M5 was about £40k and he's spent around £10k on it.

So he has, conservatively, around 400 grand in the three main projects he has on the go. That's a lot of money tied up.

YouTuber or not, he'll be wanting to liquidate some of that before getting deep into something else.

Besides, he has a fairly small team. Three projects on the go is enough for them I suspect.

[simon_harris]

I think he is into 4 or 5 rental properties now, just moved house again recently. he has form for "raffling" cars off after they are finished and the numbers involved usually mean the car "sells" for a lot more than market value. It just so happens that the raffle company is owned and operated by his partner and i think they do other raffles as well so there is another income stream.

he has come a long way in a short space of time from repairing a TT on his drive and he seems like he has got his head screwed on right to ride this horse for as long as it will last and leave him with a passive income stream to live off and some potentially tasty cars in the garage.

[Davie_GLA]

Another recent fan here. I watched some of his later stuff first then watched his TT and where he started. He has great presence and makes it very clear he is no mechanic. He’s clearly had some media training along the way and has built up a solid network across the YouTube crash rebuild universe. His deals with surf shark, square pace and car vertical must be valuable and he does a good job of folding the segments in by making the sponsorship segways part of the subject matter and not some pre-canned marketing video (im looking at you, Linus!)

I just finished the cayman playlist and he seriously went over budget on that one (think it was an 18k purchase and 30k rebuild cost (not including all outside contracts and he doesn’t include his own labour rate).

Please get a hold of a big turbo escort cosworth or a 2WD sapphire cosworth and do them justice.

Good on you Mat - crack on!

Edited by Davie_GLA on Thursday 13th April 10:41