Kayd Thorp pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates's Court to theft of a motor vehicle, use an unregistered vehicle, drive while disqualified, and contravene a community corrections order.

In November 2018, a black Mercedes station wagon was stolen in Melbourne and the following February, police found the vehicle in the garage of a vacant North Bendigo property and removed it.

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Three days later, CCTV showed Thorp arrive at a Long Gully smash repair business where the Mercedes was stored, at 11.30pm.

After the lock and chain on the gate were cut, Thorp walked to the Mercedes, used a key to unlock it and drove it out of the holding yard.

The vehicle was later found in Eaglehawk.

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Defence lawyer Nicholas Rolfe told the court Thorp was sentenced last June to 106 days for other offences, which was time already served, and an 18-month community corrections order, and there was no reason these offences could not have been dealt with on that occasion.

Mr Rolfe submitted he would be seeking a sentence of time served plus another community corrections order.

Thorp was remanded in custody to appear at the court for sentence on December 9.

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