I am Mat Armstrong from Leicester UK. Follow me as i build & modify cars. I dont really specialise in any manufacture of car, neither am i professionally trained, just a regular guy winging it as i go along restoring each car with my own personal touch (even if that means getting the angle grinder out) I hope my content brings a smile to your face and maybe inspires you to get on the spanners yourself. There would be no point in me listing what car i own at the moment as i switch and change so often, but you are likely to see Audi's, Mercedes, VW, Maserati's, Bentleys & more. I do like German engineering but im not scared to give the others a try 😆 At the end of the day im here for a good time & never take things too seriously so enjoy!! Mat Armstrong ⬇️ Im always active on my other social accounts aswell which are below ⬇️
I've spent months trying to rebuild a wrecked Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport that the factory refused to support. We finally imported a massive carbon fiber kit from Dubai, but fitting it required some terrifying modifications. I had to make some permanent cuts to six-figure carbon panels and use a surprising part from a common utility van to fix a stubborn electrical fault.
I bought a blacklisted Porsche GT3 RS that the factory refused to fix, leaving it as a non-running paperweight. After dropping the engine multiple times, I discovered a shocking mistake left behind by the technicians who previously worked on it. I managed to save tens of thousands of pounds on the repair, but the secret to getting its engine to run perfectly came down to one small mechanical component swapped in backward.
The Bugatti Veyron is a masterpiece of engineering, but a missing $10,000 key and a persistent misfire can turn a top-speed dream into a million-pound paperweight. See how Mat Armstrong used a Volkswagen Touareg part and some silicone spray to bypass Bugatti’s notorious dealer locks and prep a repossessed hypercar for the runway.
Mat Armstrong takes on a repossessed Bugatti Veyron that the factory refuses to touch, uncovering the engineering flaws behind a supposedly 'broken' gearbox. Through a mix of cross-referencing Audi parts and daring DIY fixes, he attempts to bypass a $20,000 service bill, but a haunting electronic glitch threatens to melt the whole system down.
When Bugatti refused to sell parts for a crashed Chiron, the project turned into a high-stakes fabrication war. This deep dive explores how the team used Audi A3 airbags, Honda Civic radiator cores, and custom laser-etched leather to prove that even a multi-million dollar hypercar can be rebuilt in a garage.