Mat Armstrong Reveals INSANE Car Collection & How YouTube Changed His Life
4/22/20261 hr 19 min
Check for FREE if you are due a refund in 60 seconds at https://refundclub.co.uk/cars YouTube sensation Mat Armstrong opens up about the high-stakes world of car rebuilding, revealing the financial gambles and sheer obsession required to maintain a collection of over 30 luxury vehicles. Mat shares the harrowing story of losing over £200,000 on a single car build, balanced against the incredible success of his most iconic projects, like the manual Lamborghini Murciélago he rebuilt with his father. From his early days working a 9-to-5 while moonlighting in a restaurant to becoming a household name in the car community, Mat discusses the "work hard beats talent" mindset that allowed him to transition from flipping houses to owning hypercars. Sponsors: ➤ Tom Hartley Cars - http://www.tomhartleycars.com/ ➤ Money.School - To Make, Manage & Multiple More Money & Scale Your Income. Join us at www.money.school.com BEST MOMENTS "I genuinely feel like I found something that I was meant to do." "Hard work beats talent. I'm not necessarily talented in a way. I’m not the best mechanic in the world, I'm not the best TV presenter in the world, not the best editor in the world, but together with hard work mixed into one, we've created something." "You've already lost before you've even started, if you've already said in your mind you're never going to own a supercar." Sponsors: ➤ Money.School - To Make, Manage & Multiply More Money, join us at https://money.school/goldcars ➤ Tom Hartley Cars - http://www.tomhartleycars.com For More Cars & Money Content: ➤ Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYS-7tYpRkJmrVIUq8-WV_A ➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Cars-Money/61579331221620/ ➤ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@carsandmoneyofficial ➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carsandmoneyofficial/ Connect with Carl & Rob: ➤ Rob’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?locale=en_GB ➤ Rob’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robmooreprogressive/ ➤Carl’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlhartley1/ *Refund Club is a trading style of Sandsford Law LTD. You can pursue a claim free of charge directly to your lender and then to the Financial Ombudsman Service. The FCA is likely introducing a free to use Consumer Redress Scheme, it estimates the average redress per agreement will be £700.
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First 90 secondsMat Armstrong· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] Right. I genuinely feel like I've found summit that I was, like, meant to do.
Rob Moore· Host0:09
You influence so many people. Tell me what you gonna, gonna do with Matt Armstrong? [laughs] But it's like a saying now.
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:14
Everything started from riding my bike and messing around with cars. That was literally it.
Rob Moore· Host0:18
And the hardest car you've ever worked on?
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:20
Definitely go back to [beep].
Rob Moore· Host0:21
It's a beast. What's your collection now?
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:24
Lamborghini Gallardo, Maserati GranTurismo, McLaren 720S, 458 Spider, Rolls-Royce Cullinan.
Rob Moore· Host0:30
Oh.
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:30
That car is unreal.
Rob Moore· Host0:32
What's next?
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:33
Huh.
Rob Moore· Host0:33
That's a lottery ticket.
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:34
They're absolutely lethal.
Rob Moore· Host0:36
You know, I do have one for sale.
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:37
I know you have.
Rob Moore· Host0:38
[laughs] I have one for sale. Yeah. The most you've lost and the most you've made on a car. So what is the most you've lost and the most you've made on a car from the build side, the rebuild side?
Mat Armstrong· Guest0:55
Well, the, the cars, the, the loss, definitely the Revolto.
Rob Moore· Host0:59
And roughly what was that?
Mat Armstrong· Guest1:00
[laughs] That would've been, I think we, yeah, we were 400 grand in, so I, I probably would've 200 and summit thousand pounds I would've lost on the- How does that feel? ... on the car. Do you know, you win some and you lose some.
Rob Moore· Host1:13
[laughs] Bollocks.
Mat Armstrong· Guest1:14
Like, I was like, yeah.
Rob Moore· Host1:15
[laughs] Bollocks. I mean, there, you know, oh, you win some, you lose some.
Mat Armstrong· Guest1:18
You, like, I don't, I... Do you know, like, I didn't, I didn't buy the cars to make money through selling them and- Well, I wanna come to the other bits in a minute.
Rob Moore· Host1:28
I just wanted to talk, talk about the cars