If I'm not mistaken, I have met this seller not too long ago & I don't think he is a dealer.
My son and I were taking the coupe out to visit a friend who was at a local surgery recuperation facility last May when we passed this coupe, along with about 10 to 12 other American and foreign classics that were just parked on the street on a residential corner lot. You don't see many coupes parked around town too often, unless a particular verona model is at the local gym, so it definitely caught our eye right away.
After our visit with our friend, we returned the same way and stopped and got out to look at what appeared like the assorted classics you would find on the BAT sidebar on any given day. There were about three guys chatting in the driveway next to a very nice older Jag. We didn't want to interrupt them, and they mostly ignored us as we did the car-show thing of just looking at everything parked on the street without being too nosy... The malaga coupe looked pretty nice to my cursory once-over and some of the other cars were in very good shape as well.
Once my son was satisfied that he'd seen everything he wanted to, we hopped back in the coupe and turned around and started down the road. At this point we heard someone giving the loud hey-you whistle as we turned onto the main street, so I turned around and pulled back in front of the driveway and we had a nice conversation with the owner of all these cars. Very friendly guy who owned his own business and just enjoyed collecting cars. Maybe the neighbors finally won the battle on reducing the fleet. I've seen this coupe parked downtown since then and it looked pretty sharp, so may be worth checking out if you're in the market.
