Inside Jamie Oliver’s incredible car collection as millionaire chef auctions off three of his beloved vintage motors… including a classic VW that comes with very special extra

Jamie Oliver has auctioned three of his beloved vintage motorcycles, including a Ford Capri, a VW Beetle and a Fiat.

The 49-year-old millionaire chef is selling his beloved 1970 Ford Capri 3000GT, which was previously described as his ‘go-to car’ and featured on Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast.

He bought the Capri in June 2014 and spent an estimated £20,000 restoring it. The classic car is expected to fetch between £22,000 and £26,000 at auction.

A 1955 FIAT 1100/103 series, purchased by Oliver in 2012, comes with an original license plate reading ‘677 YUM’ and is being sold with no reserve price.

Perhaps the most striking of the three cars is the 1967 VW Beetle 1500 convertible, which features some very unusual additional equipment.

Jamie Oliver and his 1967 VW Beetle 1500 convertible, which comes with a custom-made trailer

It includes a custom trailer built to serve ice cream at events, estimated to be worth a similar amount to the Ford Capri.

The vehicles will go under the hammer at a Classic Car Auctions event at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire on September 28.

Jamie is a true car fanatic and calls himself a Land Rover fan. In 2017 he teamed up with the manufacturer to convert a seven-seater Discovery sports car into a kitchen. This was featured in his Food Tube channel series.

He is also reportedly the owner of the manufacturer’s Defender off-road vehicle, which is a favourite with many Brits.

The celebrity chef previously owned a Maserati, a Porsche Cayenne and a Volkswagen camper.

He bought his wife Jools a 1967 Mustang for her birthday and later had it painted gloss black and had flames added to the side as a Christmas present.

His first car was a Ford Fiesta 950 which he bought after working in his parents’ pub, the Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex.

With an estimated net worth of £150 million, Oliver has been able to fund his hobby of collecting classic cars, which he started after his breakthrough in 1999 with his cooking show The Naked Chef.

In the 25 years that followed, Oliver has built a name for himself as one of the most recognizable TV chefs in the culinary world.

Jamie Oliver poses with his 1955 FIAT 1100/103 series which, appropriately enough, came with the original registration number 677 YUM

Jamie Oliver and his 1970 Ford Capri 3000GT, previously called his ‘go-to car’

Car fan Jamie is a big supporter of Land Rover and his own classic car collection

Jamie’s fire-painted Ford Mustang is one of the cars in his classic motorcycle collection

Jamie Oliver with his Volkswagen camper van in 2001

In April, his new Channel 4 series about cooking with air fryers was a failure with viewers, who said the show was ‘nowhere near reality’

Despite his penchant for the fast life, as evidenced by his car collection, there have been some significant bumps along the way.

In April, his new Channel 4 series about cooking with air fryers was a failure, with viewers saying it was ‘nowhere near reality’.

The first episode of the show, Jamie’s Air Fryer meals, aired across the UK, but unlike the handy kitchen appliance the 48-year-old represents, viewers were less than impressed.

The TV chef, who admitted he was initially “skeptical” about air fryers, kicked off the two-part series by sharing a recipe for fish with prosciutto, a roast chicken curry and an Alaskan peach bake.

Lucy Mangan of the Guardian wrote of the show: ‘Jamie Oliver jumps on the culinary bandwagon in this astonishingly cringey two-parter. Hasn’t even he grown tired of his own fuss by now?’

‘There are only two episodes in Jamie’s latest project and it’s already starting to take a long time before the first one is finished.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph’s Benji Wilson questioned whether the programme’s product placement with Tefal was problematic.

He wrote: ‘Actually Jamie’s Air Fryer Meals with Tefal is an advert itself. It could be called Tefal’s Air Fryer Meals with Jamie. The question is whether this is a problem or not.’