All of the ricers in my area would do things like this. Load their car up with go fast vinyl stickers. To be fair, a lot of of the crapped out old muscle cars used to exhibit the same symptoms.
Search for "bosuzoku" on Google image search (I think I spelled that right). Japanese cars like this are a parody of the "hashirya" race-inspired style.
I had a 65 GTO Convertible with a 389 Tri-power and four speed. I had bought it and restored when I was in college. The car was put back to bone stock down to the 7.75/14 redline tires and hubcaps. I can't tell how many people told me to put on mag wheels, bigger tires, jack up the back end and make it louder. Funny when I sold it, the very first serious buyer (the third guy)gave me my price on the spot. The two before him took one look at the car when I pulled the cover off and said forget it. They figured a guy in his twenties had hot rodded the car and thought they could knock the price down.