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the wheels may have been original, but not the tires

looks like a Cooper T84

Both look like they could have come off a WV Beetle.
I can see why you would say that it looks like a T84.
I don't know if Cooper ever got as high as "84."

Here's a T82.  Used in Formula 2 and Formula Atlantic competition.



And here's a T83, even smaller, used in Formula 3.


I can't find anything higher than that.

My neighbor the professor has one of those, in a sort of ugly goldish brown, but a 380SL hardtop.  He's told me many times I can take it out any time I want.  He has the hardtop on at the moment though.

I think it would be fun.

Things that make a car more "sporty" to me:

Convertible
Manual transmission
Decent handling, no wallowing
Some power, but this is not critical to me, it could be an MGBGT or whatever.

The power of many modern sports cars is simply unusable except in spurts, on ramps, etc.  Usually in an on ramp, even my GTI gets going faster than traffic in a couple seconds.  I can light it off from a stop light, yay, whatever, but it's not what makes it fun to me.

I think my i s c & a aggie wife's Aggie dad was about to buy her a 380SL convertible right  before we got married.  Several times, he mentioned that he had a friend selling it, and that it was in beautiful original condition, garage-kept and immaculately maintained for all of those 20 years.  But then I proposed, and he had a wedding to pay for instead, I suppose... 

I think he said it was  green, so perhaps like this one? 

[img width=500 height=365.98]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/89/27/08/892708ce29f06a9efe7d9cc9fe0d030a.jpg[/img]

I love all versions of the Lockheed Constellation, the most beautiful piston-engined airliner ever.  This is an Air France Super Constellation.

This is Columbine II, Dwight Eisenhower's first presidential airliner and the first aircraft to use the radio callsign Air Force One.  It is also the only presidential airplane to be sold to a private citizen, which, a few sales down the road, almost resulted in it being scrapped.

[img width=500 height=332.997]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lockheed_Constellation_Columbine_II_during_President_Eisenhower%27s_visit_to_Bermuda_for_the_December_1953_Western_Summit.jpg/1280px-Lockheed_Constellation_Columbine_II_during_President_Eisenhower%27s_visit_to_Bermuda_for_the_December_1953_Western_Summit.jpg[/img]
Saved from the scrapper, in 2016 it was put into flying condition and flown from Marana Regional Airport, Arizona, to Bridgewater, Virginia for a total restoration.
Here's video coverage of that flight.

"old-person gold."