Wrencher Saves Totaled $880,000 Custom Rolls-Royce And Takes It Camping
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Mansory is a company not known for doing things in half measures. It’s fitted all kinds of outlandish modifications to cars like the Aston Martin DBX and the Lamborghini Urus. Now, after one of its creations was totaled by soccer star Marcus Rashford, a budding mechanic set about restoring the ruined Rolls-Royce Wraith and turning it into the ultimate glamping rig.
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Earlier this year, a totaled Rolls-Royce Wraith was purchased for the bargain price of $230,000 by YouTuber and BMX rider Mat Armstrong. That might sound like a lot, but it was less than a quarter of the price that Manchester United player Rashford paid for the 2023 Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge, which had been heavily modified by Mansory.
The reason for the bargain price tag was because Rashford had recently crashed the Roller, destroying almost every panel on the car and leading his insurers to write it off. So Armstrong set about repairing the car. Now, after months of headache and video updates, the Rolls-Royce Wraith has been returned to its former glory.
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The build saw Armstrong source new body panels for the car, replacement parts from all over the place and even included a donor Wraith that he could plunder working parts from. It’s been quite the ordeal that’s all been documented on his YouTube channel. Now, the car is finished so he’s done what every good Rolls-Royce owner should do: traveled to Monaco, strapped a tent to its roof and taken it camping. Obviously.
Armstrong fitted a rooftop tent to the Roller, as well as to a Ferrari and Aston Martin driven by his friends in the latest update on the car’s resurrection. With the trio of supercars set up for a spot of glamping, they headed to the Stelvio Pass, which you might remember from a ‘Top Gear’ segment about ultimate driving roads.
From there, they put the camping prowess of each car to the test. Thankfully, the tents didn’t cave through the roof of either the Rolls-Royce, Ferrari or Aston Martin, saving Armstrong from another ambitious repair project.
A camping setup worth more than my house. Screenshot: Mat Armstrong via YouTube
After surviving the night, the three cars set off for the final destination of the repaired Wraith’s road trip: the Mansory HQ in Germany. There, the repairs were given a once over by company founder Kourosh Mansory, who took offense to some of Armstrong’s efforts and even pleaded with him to swap out his choice of wheels.
But the car wasn’t just there to be insulted by Mansory’s workforce, instead it was taken on the 2,000-mile journey to add a few finishing touches to the car that Armstrong couldn’t complete at his shop in the UK. This included adding a few missing Mansory badges and a bespoke pinstripe that could only be found on one side of his car after the rebuild.
Mansory applied the finishing touches at its base in Germany. Screenshot: Mat Armstrong via YouTube
It’s a very fun conclusion to the build, and shows the kind of final details that the people building $800,000 cars pick up on that you or I might miss. The whole film is linked above and is well worth a watch if you have a spare half hour this afternoon. In fact, the rest of Armstrong’s series on the Rolls-Royce rebuild is also worth checking out as well… if you have much longer than half an hour to kill.
