Actor and sometime racing driving Mr Eric Bana chooses his five favourite classic cars.

You might know Mr Eric Bana as the other Banner – Bruce Banner (aka the Hulk). Or Henry Tudor in The Other Boleyn Girl. Or the avenging Avner in Munich. Or Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read in Chopper. Or Nero, the bad guy in Star Trek. Or even – bonus points – the son-in-law in The Castle.

But throughout his acting career, Mr Bana has led a double life. No, not as the Hulk, but as a racing driver, competing in some of the most challenging circuit events in his native Australia.

Growing up on the outskirts of Melbourne, near the airport – mirroring the family in his debut movie The Castle – Mr Bana honed his driving skills at a nearby drag-race track, known as the Thunderdome. “Also, there were plenty of roads with no traffic on them,” he tells MR PORTER for this week’s The Journal. “Not many cops out there. I ended up getting my racing licence very early.”

So if anyone is qualified to take a supercar out for a spin, it’s Mr Bana. But now imagine there’s room to park only five cars in his fantasy garage. Here are the classics he would most like to get his hands on.

“Whether it be the roadster or the gullwing, it’s not just the shape, it’s the space-frame chassis, the fuel injection… From an engineering point of view, Mercedes was just on another planet back then [in the 1950s and 1960s]. And they still perform amazingly well.”

“The same goes for the 275 long-nose Ferrari, but it’s unobtainable, unfortunately. It sells for up to $5m (£3.5m). I was lucky enough to have got on the speedster ladder at the right time.”

“The Daytona’s not to everyone’s taste but, again, I just love that silhouette.”

“You’d have to throw in the 911, if only because it has won so much [in the 1960s and 1970s]. Really, there are design and engineering reasons behind all five of these cars, but for me they epitomise some of the most beautifully drawn creations ever.”

“I love the Speedster because of its simplicity. It has one of the most beautiful body shapes.”

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Read the full interview with Mr Eric Bana in The Journal

All images courtesy of RM Sotheby’s