I just bungee the Zimmer frame onto the boot rack, and I’m also due for a Hip Flask replacement.
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Nah! Like many of us he’s in his second childhood! 
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I was about to post saying I think it might be Australia based on the road signs, then I looked at that YT channels About page and:
Location: Australia
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I thought the road looked a bit quiet and free of traffic, just the odd Wombat or Platypus wandering out in front of you.
Look out for the odd Echidna
As for tailgating Range Rovers or White Vans, slow down and turn left!
Tyres? Hancook or the original Yokohamas, my daily driver ND likes those!
Wouldn’t it be better to just slow down and increase the following gap so that you weren’t tailgating them anymore? 
Yep I’m an old guy too 70 , they are sad , they seem to be big car owners and resent being pass by a 1.8 roller skate 
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It’s even worse when you’re a woman driving the 5. They (usually a man - sorry!) always want to race you at lights, revving up. I usually catch them up at the next sets of lights which must really annoy them!
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I Believe the Worse Tailgaters are:
On the Motorway…Dark and Stormy Night
Every Sensible Driver is Slowing Down
Especially the Articulated Lorries [Because They Know Their Stopping Distances]
But You Feel Safe Enough to Overtake Them in the Outside Lane…Nerve Racking as it is in the MX5 passing such Big Beasties
You Are Doing it Safe & Steady…Heart in Mouth
THEN SOME IDIOT NOT ONLY TAILGATES YOU BUT CONSTANTLY FLASHES HIS LIGHTS FOR YOU TO GO FASTER THAN IS LEGITIMATELY SAFE
Go Figure Their Mindset ???
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Ooops…Sorry…Assuming It’s a ‘His’ …Could Be a ‘Her’
Because according to my GP us Female Folk also have Testosterone !
But Usually Not as Much [Empathy You Chaps Fighting Inner Demon]
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call me sexist but I would never race a woman!
the reason!!
because losing would be extremely embarrassing!
whats more. ladies,
(not girls, let’s face it 18year old girls can be just as leery drivers as the 18year old boys)
tend to look after their vehicles better than us chaps.
so you could be sitting next to a lady in an identical car with identical mileage but chances are that far fewer horses have escaped from her engine than yours!!
so yeah don’t try to race the ladies!
you will probably lose and you will look stupid, and even if you win you will still look like a moron!
another little trick to pull on tailgaters!
pull over let them pass, then pull back out so you are directly behind them, and then sit back about 50 yards and put your high beams on! and then stay there.
you need to sit at that mid-distance where your lights will pee them off but actually not dazzle them.
I was taught (by a female English teacher) that when you don’t know the gender, you always put the masculine.
I’ve been a passenger in a car that had a very large HGV doing this. Once he saw he’d got our attention he kept waving his hands to make us go faster, wasn’t going to happen so he had to resign himself till we left the motorway.
What a lot of ears! I remember a school play on human biology where one of the actors got muddled and (in rehersals admittedly) pronounced to the world that he had 10 feet and 2 toes 
OK…Think What You Are Saying is that HGV Drivers Can Pressurize MX5’s ?
e.g. When We in the Slow/Middle Lanes ???
Wasn’t Talking About That
But Passing the Big Beasties in Overtaking Lane and IDIOTS TAILGATING & FLASHING LIGHTS in the Dark & Stormy Night
I Was Taught [By Legal Courses] that the ‘Masculine’ Automatically Assumes it Includes the Feminine
Unfortunately It’s Easier for Everyone to Stereotype & Pigeon Hole
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Large HGV pressurizing you in MX5 ??
Which Lane Were You In ? What Speed Were You Doing ?
Their Stopping Distance is ENORMOUS
Give Way To Weight was what I was Told !!
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Not an MX-5, that’s why I’d added the “in a car” which was probably at 70 (its limit is 73mph) at the time, and stuck (due to faster traffic) in the left lane. Actually because of a recent discussion, it would be ten years ago now so can’t fully trust my memory - mostly remember the waving lorry driver.
I’ve actually been in a car transporter, and for all its’ length/weight it could sure shift itself. I reckon it’s why we reached our destination several hours earlier than had been expected (never been in a transporter that threw you back into your seat on acceleration - it was pretty impressive !). 
I have been hit twice in the rear whilst stationery in five years. Both times by mature ladies in large engined 4x4s. The novelty is wearing off.
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So True…Stuck in the left lane with the ‘Big Beasties’ not able to get out…been there
In Any Car…Daunting 
You Have to Respect the Skills of those HGV Drivers 
I was lucky enough to be trained to drive by the Police and you learn that HGV Drivers have a Code of Conduct amongst themselves - second to none. I’ve always found them totally courteous to what ever vehicle I’ve been driving [including the largest Removal Truck you can get on a ordinary licence] to my little MX5
It’s Road Etiquette - pure and simple
And because they are on the road more than any of us…we probably should be following their lead…they must get so fed up with numpty drivers and egits 
Total Empathy re Memory 
:
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I think we must be married to the same person? 
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Haha.
Her: “Aren’t you driving rather fast?”
Me; “We’re doing forty-five miles an hour…”
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I don’t have it too bad in my MK4, most tend to move over for me. yes you do get some idiots but not a lot. I did pull over for an Aston Martin yesterday though. Only so I could check it’s rear a ss out!
Ooh I did get a cheeky smile and hazard flash from a lorry driver last weekend, he liked my car. Quick flash back.
Agree lorry drivers get a lot if stick.
Whatever you’re driving style, its not worth the energy and stress of getting upset, sit back relax and let the fast paced rat race world go by.
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