This is what happened:

About the car;

Dodge Aspen is not an unusual model in the U.S. and fairly well known in Scandinavia. It´s just that the Dodge Company doesn´t exist in its original form any longer, it belongs to the Chrysler Corporation since long ago, and the brand name of Dodge is not used in Europé any more.

The model of Dodge Aspen was never ever on the Spanish Market.

Besides, it was an American car, hardly anybody ever tries to register an American car in Spain, and with a previous registration in a country outside the European Community. If it had been any European car registerred within another European Community country things would have been much easier.

So, here he is, trying to find an authorized workshop But there are no authorized workshop for that

model of a car which, according to the lists, does not exist.

Any workshop then, authorized or not? After all, it´s just a simple job to punch some numbers and letters on a metal chassi.

But no one really dares to do it. They forward our friend Tomas to a factory of car parts.

Tomas went to Chrysler. They absolutely refused to do it. He returns to a workshop in Campoamor and pays them to do it with a promise that nobody will ever know who did it. And they finally accept to do that job.

Next stop, the customs office´agent in the city of Cartagena. But by then, the written permission had expired. He was even stopped by the Guardia Civil traffic wardens who had their own harsh opinion about that car.

Even the laws and regulations was changed during this process, it was no longer the customs Cartagena who were to issue the registration forms. That was now to be done by our old friends at the survey institution in Alicante.

But to them, just filling in forms does not make good sense. They demanded a special motor vehicle certificate for that very car model. Including information about cylinder stroke length, true dimensions and just about all kinds of material specification.

This is about the time Tomas recognizes that the technical manual is not in every detail corresponding to the car he really owns.

Insurance is another contract you must sign. Basic car insurance is compulsory in Spain just as in every country in Europé. He called just about every insurance company advertising of special advantages for customers that have been driving cars without accidents for several years.

According to the information from Tomas himself, he has never had any car insurance matters whatsoever throughout the years.

One of the insurance companies refused to sign an insurance since the motor engine of that Dodge is of remarkable size and volume, in fact according to their consideration it had to be a full size truck.

And they did not sign insurances for trucks.

The other companies would not sign insurances because the car model did not exist.

But the insurance company of MAPFRE< came to a solution, they considered the car to be a Dodge Dart instead of an Aspen, and they knew about the existance of THAT model.

(Certain series of Dodge Dart was once upon a time manufactured in Spain).

Now is the time to get to the customs and pay the customs fees Down in Cartagena again.

To decide the amount of fee to be paid for the car the customs demanded some documents. Among them the original document of the purchasing of the car.

The year when Tomas bought the car was 1983 and there was no way that reciept would exist.

But he could write an affirmation himself of the amount he once paid which could be satisfactory to the customs´officers. A considerable amount of money that was by the way.

That affirmation had to be stamped by his bank. Why in the world is the bank involved?

The bank however accepts to stamp that affirmation and now everything is in order and after paying the rest of the fees he can get his new license plates.

Summary and "What was to be paid for" follows.