Hell I did it in front of a DairyQueen, with some old classmates
They were shocked.
There is no practice involved; its not a matter of not knowing how. My Lanos is an automatic with a stock engine. It won't spin tires uless the road is wet.
Now, my 1969 Beetle and my Porsche are both manual transmission, and I have smoked the tires with those, quite easily.