It's probably my age but when someone says sport's car this is what pops into mind MG TD, Triumph TR 3, Austin Healy and others. The British supplied "sports cars" to us here in the US in the 1040's and 1950's because we didn't have many. The sometimes mentioned requirement that a sports car has to be high powred sure wasn't the case withe these cars. The MG TD only had about 60 HP.

I have driven almost all of these cars from this era and owned an Austin Healy. Some back then even said they weren't sports cars any more when they added glass roll up windows and eliminated the plastic side curtain's.