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I searched this forum and could not see Mat mentioned. Hope this isnt a double post.

He is a former professional BMX rider based in the UK who fixed his GF car after an accident by himself without using insurance. Video blew up and now, 3 years later, he no longer works in an Indian restaurant, and he has 3 channels with over 300 million views.

He buys insurance written of cars and then repairs them himself in his garage. And we not talking about Polos here. Try Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche Cayman, Porsche GT3, BMW M5, Mclaren\, you name it. Then many of the cars he gives away in raffle. He also recently bought a Lambo Murcielago that had been standing for 7 years with its engine removed. Rebuilt it, then drove it to Monaca where he bet his fuel bill on black!

In many of his builds he doesn't just repair the car to standard spec, he makes mods while along the way.

I been home alone the last week and been binge watching this. Possibly one of the best car channels on youtube right now? Just really good stuff with him, his GF, his dad, and a few mates repairing crash damaged supercars and having a blast!

His efforts have even been noticed by many celebrities and has had Richard Hammons appear on his channel. He was also invited to Abu Dhabi to bid on the Lambo that they wrecked in the Wolf of Wall Street and rebuild it, but it sold for much more than he wanted to pay for it. His budget was $600k. It sold for $1.6m.

Example:

Before.


After.


Check it out.

He has three channels, I think. Main one is all these repairs broken into many different videos. 2nd channel is then all of it in one video. Like the Lambo video is I think 3 hours long. And it's not boring.


 
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Yeah, do watch some of his things. Apparently his channel started blowing up last year when the overlord google algorithm started suggesting it to people.
 
Watch RRC Restorations and Ronald Finger too. Ronald has good humour and RRC is very OCD.

B is for Build for strange builds. There are a few other good channels. Samcrac, Goonzquad, Watch JR Go, Tavarish etc are the usuals.
 
Yeah also started watching Tavarish after Matt and him met in US to rebuild a Porsche GT3. Been watching Tavarish with the LP1 he working on.
V-Tuned is another, Kondor Buildz, Ratarossa and Rich Rebuilds. You'll have days of entertainment to catch up on!
 
Mighty Car Mods. That is all.

But also Allan Millyard and RRC if you enjoy the thorough, step-by-step process.

And if you haven't watched Project Binky by Bad Obsession Motorsport then I hope your shoelaces remain forever untied.
 
Mighty Car Mods. That is all.

But also Allan Millyard and RRC if you enjoy the thorough, step-by-step process.

And if you haven't watched Project Binky by Bad Obsession Motorsport then I hope your shoelaces remain forever untied.
Mighty Car Mods is the Ausie guys right?
 
Mighty Car Mods. That is all.

But also Allan Millyard and RRC if you enjoy the thorough, step-by-step process.

And if you haven't watched Project Binky by Bad Obsession Motorsport then I hope your shoelaces remain forever untied.
All of the above. Binky is my kind of OCD build. Always place for a bracket... xD
 
I've been a regular of all the channels mentioned, have to say may of them do get tedious after a while.

The whole rebuilding a supercar thing is now a bit over done. Was cool when it was new, diesnt draw my fancy anymore.

A cool series to watch is RyanTuerck where he builds the formula supra, Took a brand new mk5 supra, Stripped it completely and put a v10 Judd motor in it. His gr86 with the ferrari v8 was also a great series to watch.

I struggle to find good motoring content now days, alot is recycled ideas.

I do enjoy DAP and Humble Mechanic. MCM, Papadakis Racing, Ben Collins, Chris Harris to name a few. Struggling with the rebuilding things now.

AutoAlex is also a great channel right now, Very "Top Gear in its prime" esque
 
I've been a regular of all the channels mentioned, have to say may of them do get tedious after a while.

The whole rebuilding a supercar thing is now a bit over done. Was cool when it was new, diesnt draw my fancy anymore.

A cool series to watch is RyanTuerck where he builds the formula supra, Took a brand new mk5 supra, Stripped it completely and put a v10 Judd motor in it. His gr86 with the ferrari v8 was also a great series to watch.

I struggle to find good motoring content now days, alot is recycled ideas.

I do enjoy DAP and Humble Mechanic. MCM, Papadakis Racing, Ben Collins, Chris Harris to name a few. Struggling with the rebuilding things now.

AutoAlex is also a great channel right now, Very "Top Gear in its prime" esque
Watch the Budget Buildz Porsche rebuild. Dylan McCool does some nice junkyard builds. Vice Grip Garage is also pretty cool.
 
Tavarish does some cool builds as well. He, Vin Wiki and the guy from Hoovies Garage has a good YouTube series called Car Trek, like Top Gear when Clarkson, Hammond and May we still on the show.
 
Wait... you guys don't watch MrBeast survive alone on Mars for 1000 days? Get better content, nerds!

But for real, also a big fan of Mat.
 
I've been a regular of all the channels mentioned, have to say may of them do get tedious after a while.

The whole rebuilding a supercar thing is now a bit over done. Was cool when it was new, diesnt draw my fancy anymore.

A cool series to watch is RyanTuerck where he builds the formula supra, Took a brand new mk5 supra, Stripped it completely and put a v10 Judd motor in it. His gr86 with the ferrari v8 was also a great series to watch.

I struggle to find good motoring content now days, alot is recycled ideas.

I do enjoy DAP and Humble Mechanic. MCM, Papadakis Racing, Ben Collins, Chris Harris to name a few. Struggling with the rebuilding things now.

AutoAlex is also a great channel right now, Very "Top Gear in its prime" esque


I quite like Classic Electric Cars channel, and Electric SuperCar.

A big fan of DAP, Humble Mechanic, AutoAlex...
I used to watch Carthrottle, but not anymore since Alex left.

I loved the fabrication montage of bracketry of Project Binky. If you have a thing for brackets, British jokes and some funk, then this should be on your watchlist.
 
StanceWorks is an amazing channel. He rdcently did a pretty wild K24 turbo conversion in a Ferrari body. Also super ocd and does a lot of the fab work himself. His attention to detail and production quality is also great.
 

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