Car owner who forgot where he parked his wheels finds it 20 years later

It's likely that we have all been faced with the dilemma of trying to remember where we parked the car .

But it's rare that our memories fail us to the extent that we have to file a police report admitting we have lost it.

Yet, that's exactly what happened in Frankfurt in 1997 and the mystery of what happened has only just been revealed to its now 76-year-old owner.

According to Augsburger Allgemeine , the driver had parked his car in the garage of an industrial building.

However, having failed to find it, he made a report to police and then most likely made peace with his misfortune.

Then by chance, the mystery was solved two decades later.

Construction workers had contacted the police after finding the car as they were preparing to demolish the building.

The police then discovered the 20-year-old report on their system and contacted the owner.

Sadly, the car was no longer road worthy and instead was sent to a junkyard for scrap.