That story reminds me of how things use to be back when I first got my car. Except it was backwards. I would rev at Mustangs and they would just plain out ignore me. A couple times they even told me they didn't want to waste their time... even when my car was solidly in the low 13's on pump gas. Then mid 12's and still the same. It's only been fairly recent it seems that those V8 guys are starting to get edumacated.
I have to admit to putting on stickers on my car, too. But that was in the mid 90's and only lasted a week before I peeled them all back off.