I have heard many stories of cars like that running here in Brooklyn and Queens at the late night drags. Cars like 70's Lincolns, Buick 225s, and Caddy Fleetwoods. All packing monster big blocks on nitrous. 500, 600, 700, cube motors. They'd tuck the tires underneath, run factory hubcaps, and sometimes four mufflers with a dump set up. They called them Sucker Mobiles. They looked like someone borrowed Dad's car for the night, and showed up for some serious racing. An unsuspecting mark would choose to run against one of these guys for some good money, only to get his doors completely blown off.
They especially loved to pull this on naive kids with Rice Burners who watched too many Fast and the Furious movies.