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Gordon Torbet’s career path has taken him from cardboard packer in his local Co-op store to financial services rep., from actor to motoring and lifestyle journalist. Now he takes on his greatest challenge and the culmination of all his previous experience – avoiding haemorrhoids for the duration of a 3000km journey across India in a tuk tuk.

The preparation has been extensive. An illustrious acting career under the pedantry of various directors in UK rep theatre, touring Virginia, USA, and extensively around the British Isles, as well as various forays into TV furniture advertising in Denmark, has given Gordon a thick skin when it comes to pains in the backside.

Meanwhile the past three and a half years have been an intense study of the nature of advanced motoring mechanics in preparation for the overwhelming seven horsepower engines and extreme handling dynamics of the legendary tuk tuk. Having re-launched the popular UAE motoring lifestyle magazine Car Xpress, Gordon has since toyed with the assistant editor position at Autocar Middle East. However, thanks to the current ‘credit crunch’ now enjoys the liberation and gamboling lifestyle of the freelance journalist regularly featuring in The National newspaper and ‘wheels’ magazine, while also giving him the opportunity to make the most of his own free financial advice.