For what its worth, when I’m sitting in the staging lanes and all the slicks lanes are moving up the line, the unburnt exhaust fumes have almost gotten me high on gap juice/sauce before.
Not quite the same, but I went to a lowrider show in Sante Fe NM and found it super cool. It was all cholo gangsters and most of the guys I was hanging out with had face tattoos. But cars are a common denominator and they were super cool about sharing with me. The pumps and frame reinforcement required for a trunk full of batteries were a trip. There were quite a few rides that had >100k into them.