HOLLYWOOD hardman Vinnie Jones has a stunning collection of motors including an £84,000 Range Rover and an iconic Rolls-Royce.
Jones went from the Wimbledon crazy gang to acting in famous movies like Lock Stock and Snatch.
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The former professional footballer is now a respected actor after hanging up his boots in the late 90s.
Jones, now 58, recently picked up a new D-Max AT35 from Isuzu dealer Crawfords in Billingshurst, West Sussex.
The former midfield enforcer who once captained Wales will use the chunky truck while filming a new show for the Discovery channel.
Jones is a well known petrol head with a lovely collection of motors with plenty of personality parked up outside his Hollywood home.
Six years ago Sun motoring correspondent Rob Gill met up with Vinnie, when the former Wimbledon pro showed off his motor collection, thought to be worth around £200,000.
He told Rob that he was particularly proud of his 1995 Land Rover Defender 110.
Vinnie said: “I paid seven and a half grand for it, f***ing old rust bucket it was. I just wanted to cut the roof out to shoot a few rabbits.
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“But then I found this geezer, Stuart Brown, who does all this customising and I said to him, ‘What can you do?’ And he said, ‘Whatever you want’. And I thought, ‘Really?’
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“So, I’m literally — this is how bad it was — watching these restoration programmes and I’m taking pictures of the TV and sending them to him.
“I’m driving him mad, saying, ‘I want this, this, this’. Every single nut and bolt came off. Eighty grand later, I get me motor back and it’s just magnificent. It’s the f***ing b*****ks, mate. The insurers have valued it at 150 grand. It’s my pride and joy.”
The former pro also has a retro Roller parked up on the drive.
He said: "Me and Jason Statham came over here and went, ‘Yeah, we’re in Hollywood, yeah, let’s get a f***ing Harley’.
“So I bought one, rode it around LA for a bit but thought, ‘No, f*** that’. Too scary, mate. So I part-exchanged it for the Roller, $27,000 plus five grand cash.
“It’s 1988 — the year we (Wimbledon) won the FA Cup, blue, from Crewe — near enough to Liverpool, innit. I just had to have it.
“That turns more heads than anything. Everyone loves that motor. I just drive along at 40mph, f***ing the b*****ks. It’s got VJ in the headrests.
“My first Hollywood motor after Gone In Sixty Seconds was a Ferrari Spider. That was the b*****ks. I got the f***ing buzz for that because we were testing all the cars.
“My mate ended up with that. I had an Avantgarde Mercedes. Tasty one. Statham was going on his first date with Kelly Brook and he phoned me up and said, ‘I’ve only got me old van, have you got a motor I can borrow?’ He took her out in that.
“My real nice one was the Bentley Arnage, f***ing loved that motor. It was so funny. We had the builders at the house and I said to them I want a big fountain with a brick wall round it. They said, ‘Yeah, yeah. We can do that for you, Vin’.
“I go to Ascot with some pals, come home, we’re all b*****ksed, then about 2am I give my mate a lift down the drive. I drop him off, go hurtling back, forgot about the roundabout, saw it too late, smashed the anchors on, all gravel, and crash.
“I’ve scrambled out, gone inside, and everyone said, ‘Oh my god, what was that noise?’ I said, ‘Some f***er has put a roundabout in me drive’. I left it parked up the wall and sorted it the next day. I was driving around Watford aged 15, no licence or f*** all. But in them days it was lax.
“I was driving a TK Bedford, filling up with sand and cement and supplies and taking it to the boys on the build.”
But Vinnie told Rob that his choice for the daily drive was his Range Rover Sport.
He said: “The thing is, there’s always the question: What can I go to a premiere in? What can I go to dinner in? What can I go to a funeral in? What can I go shooting in? Fishing? It ticks every box. It’s the car for all occasions. The daddy.
“It’s a statement vehicle without sticking it up your nose.”
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