Noel Gallagher "forgot" he spent £110,000 on a car which he can’t drive.
The 52-year-old rocker has admitted that when he became a "full-blown rock star" during the height of his fame as a member of Oasis in the 1990s, he splashed out on a Mark II Jaguar from 1967, which set him back £110,000.
He said: "When I became a full-blown rock star I thought, ‘I haven’t got a car. I’m going to need a car’. I had heard about this firm that buys old vintage chassis and puts a modern car inside them. So I got a Mark II Jaguar from 1967 – the year I was born. They take 18 months to two years to build and I thought I will easily have learned to drive."
But when the car arrived, Noel had no recollection of his pricey purchase, and still hadn’t passed his test.
He added: "I was in the kitchen and this low-loader turned up with a car on the back. I thought, ‘f***ing lovely car on the back of that’, and I thought, ‘I’m going to get one of those one day’. Then the guy knocks and says, ‘Your car’. I had forgotten I had bought the car."
The ‘Black Star Dancing’ hitmaker – who also owns a Rolls-Royce – has put his Jaguar in a garage away from his home, and has only visited it once when his wife Sara took it for a brief spin.
Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday newspaper, he said: "It happened to be in a garage near where we were at the time. I said, ‘Oh, let’s go and have a look’. She drove it that once and then put it back in the garage. And I haven’t seen it for about another five years."
Noel Gallagher ‘forgot’ he bought $110k car
