Unfortunantly, this is all too common. I took my wife’s classic Mustang to a glass shop for them to try a seal the windshield (again) and got reports from several witnesses that they took it out and thrashed it around town.
As a 17 year old senior in high school, I worked at an auto repair shop. We were busy. A mechanic had just finished putting new (larger) wheels/tires and traction bars on a suped-up Trans-am. He told me to test drive it to see if the wheels rubbed when you accelerate. I objected at first. It was a stick and I had only recently learned to drive one (in a 4-cylnder). But we were pretty busy. I don’t know how much horse power that car had. But I couldn’t find the right touch to let out the clutch without either jerking and stalling or spinning the tires. Trying this on the streets was getting cumbersome. So I went to a big and MOSTLY vacant grocery store parking lot down the street. I did a couple accidental short burnouts trying to accelerate. Then I would get out to see if there were marks on the tires. That’s when I noticed I had drawn a small crowd in front of the grocery store. I was wearing my uniform and started to think what this must look like. I immediately drove the car back to shop, turned in the keys and reported it perfect.
I will admit that there was at least one time I may have given it more gas than necessary but immediately stopped when I noticed the smoke. In hindsight, the clutch was obviously too sensitive. lol