Looking for clues

[Dan from NL]

I'm not on this forum to talk about Toyota's. I do not actally own one. 

I just try to find out who knows anything about a certain Celica.  I'll start a post on that subject.

[Dan from NL]

Searching for a house to renovate in Portugal, I came across a house that was almost finished, but works must have stopped years before.

This was in 2019..

As I wanted to locate the owner, or maybe his/her heirs, I contacted the Garda.  They told me they could not be of assistance due to data protection act 2018. 

The Garda did give me an email adress for missing persons. Though I then never got any reply. As Portugal does not have a complete landregistry which is 

searcable without the owners name or tax number.. .. I was stuck.

 

I passed by the same house recently. Nothing changed. The neighbours are all new and they have no contacts for previous owners. No luck there.

So I tried another time with the missing persons email adress. This time I was helped mucht better, but there database does not go back before 1987.

He suggested some lines of inquiery, and someone at the transport data was good enough to check if the plates excist. They are not in their files either.

There still are many options. Did these plates ever excist officially, or are they fake. If they did excist, why are they removed. Did the owner emigrate,

or was the car registered as scrapped when it did not show for a new MOT ?  I'm guessing as I'm not familiar with Irish legislation and rules on these subjects.

 

So as a car freak - mostly JLR - , I thought about an enthousiasts forum like this.

The owner of the car can have just left the car as it broke down and went his merry way, lived happyly many years on.  More sinister : he could have had a

heartattack and died on a walk. The area is desolate. He can also have been found without an ID on him, taken to hospital and died as John Doe.

 

But I assume he/she owned the house. As I only today discovered it has been build between 2007 and 2010. On google-maps-timeline, it appears in 2010.

So the owner must have been around in 2010, or later, before 2019. The photo's are from 2019 and the car is severely vandalised, so I assume its there for at least  5 years.

Local police can not assist, only if a request is filed by neighbours or relatives.

 

So I try to find living relatives, if there are any at all. He/she might have been a single person without any kins..

Just to make sure there are no relatives around, in Ireland, wondering what has happened to their father, brother or daughter/mother.. .. anything is possible.

It also crossed my mind that the person has hidden the car around 2012-2015 if the house was already unused. Maybe he/she squatted there..

Maybe out of cash after wondering around since many years, who knows where.

 

So if anyone recognises this car from many years ago, when you were young and dreaming of your own Celica one day, like I did over an XK150...

 

Please reply to this post !

 

[AndrueC]

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[MC1216]

Well the car is showing SORN and last change of keeper was 2006 so i think the mystery will never be solved...probably abandoned the car and property.

Don't know how land registry works in Portugal but there must be some way of checking who owns the house unless it was built without permission.

[APS]

9 minutes ago, MC1216 said:

unless it was built without permission.

Which is a distinct possibility. The car may also have been used 'off grid' in Portugal for years. Serious detective work needed to work this one out.