Man who bought abandoned Lamborghini Murcielago finds unseen footage of the car on YouTube from 14 years ago – now everything makes sense

What happens when you buy a decades-old Lamborghini Murcielago with mysterious issues and later find videos of the car being thrashed around? Well, that’s what happened to this buyer from Leicester, England.

Mat Armstrong bought this abandoned 2002 Lamborghini that had been sitting in one place for seven years.

It came with major problems, and some of them raised questions nobody could answer.

While he was halfway through restoring the supercar, he found YouTube videos of the car that finally solved some big mysteries.

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Mysterious history behind abandoned Lamborghini Murcielago

In a video posted to his YouTube channel, Mat Armstrong MK2, he revealed some of the strange issues he was experiencing with his Lamborghini Murcielago.

For context, he’s the same person who rebuilt Marcus Rashford’s Rolls-Royce, so his car knowledge is top-tier.

But even that expertise can fail to answer why a car had some elements missing or color-differences across body panels.

As for this car’s history, it belonged to a local ‘track experience’ firm that let clients try out supercars on a track.

That means hundreds, if not thousands, of people drove it over the course of a decade.

While Mat was restoring the car, he found some irregularities with the gearbox.

Moreover, one of the car’s doors was filled up — hinting toward a possible dent.

And the cherry on top? The Lamborghini Murcielago also missed a badging on one side.

That’s when Mat found some YouTube videos of the exact car being driven around by different people.

Too many people drove the car

While some drivers drove it super carefully, others were far from gentle.

A handful of videos he found showed different drivers grinding the gearbox while switching gears.

If done occasionally, that’s unlikely to cause much of a problem, but there were more than just a few cases.

Although the gearbox itself was somewhat faulty, some drivers had never driven a Lamborghini before.

That led to the gearbox being worn out and reaching the sad state Mat found it in.

On top of that, he also found images of the Murcielago in those videos that showed a dent and missing badging.

Considering the amount of people that drove this car, the problems could have been a lot worse.

At least this supercar got another chance at life, unlike another Murcielago that was found abandoned in a junkyard.