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1HERSA1 0007 The Sydney Morning Herald Friday, January 14, 2011 7 DriveLIFE stars and their cars VITAL STATISTICS CAR LOVER GAUGE 2outof5 2outof5 1995 YearIgotmyfirstcar 4 Number of cars I've owned Where you know him from his 2007 role as Alexander Downer in Keating! The Musical, as well as 2008's Shane Warne: The Musical, which he wrote and starred in. Also appeared on TV shows Kath and Kim, Spicks and Specks, Stingers and Blue Heelers. Currently in Channel Ten's drama Offspring. Career highlights winning 2009 Helpmann Award for best new Australian work and Green Room Award for Shane Warne: The Musical. His favourite Australian road movie The Big Steal. EDDIE PERFECT ACTOR, COMEDIAN, MUSICIAN Photo: Anna Kucera What was your first car? My father's Kombi van. I inherited it at the end of 1995. In 1990 we'd actually driven around Australia as a family in this white Kombi van. After I got it I kind of became a bit of a designated driver. It was pretty impressive. You could fit lots of people and instruments in it. You could see over traffic. I had production meetings in that Kombi. I had band meetings. We fired someone in the Kombi. You could do anything in it. You fired someone in the Kombi? Yeah, we kind of had an intervention on someone in the band. Disappointment is always made a little bit more [dramatic] by having to open a sliding Kombi door at the end of a firing. It was a bit cruel -- ''you may leave the Kombi now''. But there was also a lot of romance in the Kombi and it was good times. What are you driving now? A Honda Civic, I think about an '85 model. It's my partner Lucy's. She's totally in love with it. She gave me this whole list of things I had to say about it, otherwise she'd get really mad, and I've forgotten all of them. I know that the car's called Trixie and that it's red. And it had all these racing car additions. It used to be fully lowered, as the kids would say, until she got pulled over by the police one day. But it's very reliable. I drove it from Melbourne to Sydney today. It's just awesome, unstoppable. What's your ideal car? I live in the Yarra Valley and my partner's getting back into horses, and we need a car that'll pull a horse float. We kind of need a four-wheel-drive and the ones I like have a ute tray and a twin cab. That's the car. It combines the cultural mystique of the ute with power and general awesomeness of a four-wheel-drive. What's your pet road peeve? What bugs me about Sydney is that drivers are more aggressive on the weekends than they are throughout the week. It's really tense out there on a Saturday. If you get in someone's way and they've got to be at brunch in five minutes, god help you, they'll bludgeon you to death with a chafing dish. If you could go on a long road trip with absolutely anyone, who would it be? I don't even have a radio in the Honda and I ran out of tunes on my iPhone on the way to Sydney, so it was a tragedy. 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