After YouTuber bought viral flooded Porsche for $130k the old owner finally revealed what happened to it

YouTuber Mat Armstrong spent a considerable chunk of money buying a flooded Porsche 911 GT3 RS that went viral earlier this year.

The owner of the car lost control and crashed it in a river and, at that point, he thought it’d be a sensible idea to just to get rid of it and sell it ‘as is’.

That’s when Armstrong came in and decided to buy it.

Now, the original owner has been in touch to explain what happened.

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What really happened to the car

Mat Armstrong spent $130,000 to buy this totaled Porsche and documented his purchase on his YouTube channel.

For reference, a brand-new Porsche 911 GT3 RS would have cost him at least twice that.

The car only came with 200 miles (322 kilometers) on the clock, and no keys.

As it turns out, the owner kept both the car keys and the car’s fire extinguisher as ‘souvenirs’.

When he heard that Armstrong had bought his car, he got in touch with the YouTuber to explain what really happened.

The owner said he’d lost control of the 518 horsepower car, hit one tree, then another, and then ended up in the water.

Porsche 911s, especially the most extreme models such as the GT3 or GT3 RS, can be notoriously difficult to handle because the engine is at the back, so we’re not entirely surprised.

He also told Armstrong he wasn’t even sure if the engine was damaged or not because, on impact, the car’s ‘brain’ can possibly cut the engine.

A doomed Porsche 911 GT3 RS…or not

YouTubers like Mat Armstrong often do this sort of thing.

This is actually not his first expensive purchase this year.

He famously bought Marcus Rashford’s Rolls-Royce, fixed it for about half the price, and then drove it back to Mansory when the company got involved.

They do it because it’s fun, but also because the views – and therefore advertising revenue – they get with these videos are generally more than enough to cover the cost of the car.

Even though these vehicles often seem doomed, that’s generally not the case.

Freddy ‘Tavarish’ Hernandez, another YouTuber bought a flooded McLaren that everyone thought would never run again, but he managed to fix it.

Something similar will probably happen with this flooded Porsche.