25 years ago, Lennart "Lillen" Wallin scrapped his Volvo 745. Yet he has now received a speeding ticket from France in the mail.
25 years ago, Lennart "Lillen" Wallin scrapped his Volvo 745. Or so he thought. Because now he's got a speeding ticket.
Lennart "Lillen" Wallin, who lives in Sweden, discovered the speeding ticket in his mailbox. It came all the way from France, where police believe a speed camera spotted the car as recently as February 13th of this year.
He tells Ölandsbladet .
"It's unbelievable. The guys who came to pick up the car at the time cut a pallet roof through the side windows of it," he tells the newspaper.
Still, French police believe that a car with the Volvo's registration number was speeding on a country road northeast of Paris.
Smashed with a pallet jack – maybe the car is still alive
Specifically, the car must be limited to 86 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. And the government must pay Lennart "Little" Wallin. Or rather – he should.
Because the French police also write in the letter to him that he doesn't have to pay anything if he doesn't have a car card. And that can hardly be the case when the car died 25 years ago.
– The mechanic said it wasn't worth repairing. I parked it to avoid paying taxes, and then the guys from Nybro came and picked it up.
– They were going around picking up old cars, I really thought it was going to be scrapped, the former 745 owner tells the newspaper.
So what has really happened to the Volvo? Lennart "Lillen" Wallin himself refuses to believe that it is still alive. But it could be that the license plate has been illegally transferred to another car.
And Lennart Wallin may have been fined because he is listed as the car's most recent owner in the Swedish motor vehicle register.
The Swedish motor vehicle register is one of the most publicly accessible in the world. Anyone and everyone can see who has owned and owns which cars in Sweden.
But that kind of openness may soon be over. Some politicians believe that the system can be abused. Read more about it here .
