Jason....
My sister's 3 cylinder Charade would have done well with a bit of aero-assistance. She killed it another way - played the old "let's see how far an engine goes without water" game.
Bernie - the genuine 427 up here that you mentioned was actually rebiult in South Australia before being driven back up to Queensland. The car hit a crow on the highway and smashed the windscreen halfway up here. Quite a way to run in a newly rebuilt $700,000 car