For some reason I'm reminded of that series of articles in Hot Rod magazine or Popular Hot Rodding or whichever where they took a 70's land yacht with a 500 cubic inch big block and started cutting pieces off the car. Every time they took a couple hundred pounds off they ran it down the drag strip. In the end it was very fast but little more than a drivetrain, frame, seat and steering wheel.

Yeah, cut enough off it and it should be fast, real fast.