I rebuilt Man Utd star Rashford’s wrecked Rolls-Royce – it cost me £324k and I even had to buy a new car just for parts

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MARCUS RASHFORD’S wrecked old Rolls Royce Wraith has been rebuilt by a YouTuber in a stunning six-month project that cost more than £300,000.

YouTuber Mat Armstrong started the project on the Rolls Royce Wraith Mansory edition half a year ago when he bought the car for £184,000 at auction.

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YouTuber Mat Armstrong brought Marcus Rashford’s wrecked Rolls Royce[/caption]

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He started the project six months ago[/caption]

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The car was totalled from a traffic collision with Rashford behind the wheel[/caption]

The car cost £184,000 at a car wreck auction sale[/caption]

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It needed a lot of work done to the interior to get it back up to standard[/caption]

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The Rolls Royce was badly damaged on the left side[/caption]

The project required an almost total rebuild of the vehicle[/caption]

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It even included Armstrong splashing out £90k on a second Rolls Royce just for parts[/caption]

In April he revealed Rashford helped him out by helping to fund and provide some parts of the car that the Manchester United star had originally paid £700,000 for.

The custom Mansory Black Badge Wraith was written off after it was involved in a collision last September and suffered extensive damage to the left side with Rashford behind the wheel, though, fortunately, no one was hurt in the accident.

And Armstong, who has 3.32 million subscribers on his channel, has posted the latest update of the project on his channel.

The petrolhead – along with his dad and friends – has been getting his hands dirty for half the year in an attempt to restore the car.

But Rolls Royce Mansory parts do not come cheaply, and Armstrong revealed in his first video on the project that he needed to splash £90,000 on a second Rolls Royce just for the parts.

However, Armstrong’s labour has finally paid off, with the car once again road-worthy.

The 47-minute video about the restoration programme kicked off with Armstrong revealing the excruciating detail of the interior design.

Countless electrical wires and bolts were needed to bring the interior up to scratch, with the stunning blue seats, carpets and inside lights costing £35,000 alone.

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Armstrong’s father had spent an extraordinary amount of time sorting the wiring for the left door, while they even needed to adjust the boot by bashing it with a hammer to make sure the door would lock in place.

However, the intricate nature of the electronics meant even more time was needed to properly code the car.

Even after this, they unfortunately found four electrical faults relating to airbags, seatbelt tension and headrest faults.

Additional costs had to be considered too, with the side skirting (£7,000) and an additional forged carbon fibre topping (£2,500)on just one side costing £9,500.

Work was also done on the exhaust system.

The designer Mansory exhaust mufflers set Armstrong back more than £4,600, with the middle pipework without mufflers used with custom-made quicksilver exhausts costing £2,500.

There was then the black rear bumper that brought the total for the rear of the car up to around £20,000, £700 of which was spent on black paint alone.

After all was said and done with the bodywork of the Rolls Royce, work was also needed to get the suspension correct.

To do this it took an hour to inflate and deflate the wheels and measure them to where they wanted it to be correctly, with the follow-up coding for this then taking one hour to complete.

Armstrong ended the video by going to get some custom wheel rims, before revealing the overall cost of the project was £324,000.

However, Armstrong hinted that the project still had some additions to be made, which he teased would be revealed in a later video.

Rashford, meanwhile, has replaced his Rolls with an almost identical one.