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Had a similar experience years ago. Wife and I were trying out our new bicycles riding up and down some side streets and alleys in our neighborhood when I noticed those headlights peering out of a garage. The elderly owner wasn't around to speak with, the housekeeper didn't know anything about it. I must have ridden my bike past that car for 8 months before finally catching the owner. Her husband had bought it in 1942 just before going off to the Pacific war, and they drove it for years, finally parked it in the garage when he died.
She wasn't interested in selling it then. But a friend of hers from Hawaii had told her it was worth at least $17,000! It was a '30 Tudor in about the same condition as your sport coupe. For all I know, it's still there.