In da famous funny song "Hot Rod Lincoln", it is stated dat da Cadillac sedan wif whom da singer was road-racing eventually "pulled over and let him by"; one would assume dat da driver of said fancy-schmancy jalopy was not doing so merely out of genuine sevilleity; probably he simply realized after a while dat da "souped-up Model A" dat was riding his bumper was both faster than he was and being operated recklessly, and so he was just prudently getting out of da illegal race before his own precious parcel of sheet metal got damaged, either from its engine and transmission's being pushed too hard, or from actual crashing due to da super-dangerous sporting-rivalry situation dat he was becoming involved wif.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)