Making progress on my Demon

Why cant a drag car be a show car and why cant a show car be a drag car?
I'm just built different I guess. I mean if I put a thread on a forum about building a high performance big block in an A body, the last place I'm taking it to when I'm done is a car show to let it sit. I'm going to take it outside and run the piss out of it, do a burnout and then most likely head straight to the drag strip- Not in any particulate order. At the very least a in car video of the car hauling *** down a street.