It's possible. Same goes if you purchase stolen goods, knowingly or not, the original owner can seize it back if it's found leaving you with nothing but civil action against those who sold it to you.

Be it car, DVD player, tv whatever pretty much.

In Vic a whole heap of cars were registered feadulantly by Vic roads staff allegedly and they were terminated. Vicroads was forced to pay compensation in some cases and bring orher imported cars up to Australian standards. A lot originated from nsw. And a lot of vic cars ended up in nsw.

So essentially seven years and who knows how many owners ago some unknown person may have done something dodgy and now an innocent girl with no money may lose her car for good, sounds like a pretty average system.

Sorry for bad scenario but it's not uncommOn. Happened lots in qld and Vic with imported cars and stolen/ repaired cars from nsw.

No it's normal if the Vin has been
Listed on the national database. Seems like it was probably a statutory write of or similar from insurance. What can happen is people buy a wrecked car at auctions for the vin- Be it stat or economic write off then use that Vin on a stolen or repaired car. Used to be was only recorded in that state but now as the national data based are merged to stop these cars being sold interstate,it may be a case of this.

That's why they want your records, to see where it came from and trace the sale to point of origin.if the car is one of these reshell, it can be scraped by law, leaving your friend with a civil duspute with the seller in some cares or with the person that originally re registered the car.

It's messy.

I sold a car to a friend 2 years ago who has just moved to Queensland.
So she went to get the car registered and the TMR told her it had been in an accident in 05 and would need to be inspected to determine if it was safe to drive. (it was a good car when I had it and showed no sign of being in an accident)

Now they wont give it back, until she can prove where she got it and that its rightfully hers.

They wont accept the receipt she got from me when she bought it or a statutory declaration, now they want me to fax all the documentation I have.

The car was registered to me in NSW and then to her for about 2 years before she went to Queensland.

Anyone come across this before? all seems pretty bizarre to me.