That’s exactly what I was thinking of! :)
When I was driving truck, I lived in a house that a bank owned just for the property. The rent was $50/mo. for a one bedroom. There were two one bedrooms in the upstairs, and a two bedroom apt downstairs. There was an old garage out back. One day, I climbed over the partition from one of the open stalls to see what was locked up in the one locked stall. Yep... a pristine Model A. By the time I’d finished the title search, someone had broken down the door and towed it off... I have no doubt to this day it was a government employee.