UK : To make your car into something it shouldn't be. Such as your typical granny shopping cart runnaround having air scoops, quad exhausts, 18" alloys.. and it still is a 1 litre effort.
Comes from a chain of vehicle shops in the UK.
Vauxhall Nova1 litre? Hmmm. With quad exhausts, and 20" alloys? Major case of halfordness if you ask me...
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)