Daniel Winning, 22, of Pile Court, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to unlicensed driving, driving an unregistered car and possessing weapons.

He was convicted and fined $850.

Winning's solicitor told magistrate John Lesser his client's older brother had been sentenced to serve nine years in prison for an armed robbery.

"Daniel does not want to go down the same path," Xavier Farrelly said.

Winning's father is ill and his mother also needs assistance because of a medical condition.

​The magistrate said it was hope that Winning obeyed the law but it was up to him.

Police pulled over Winning on January 12 at 6.10pm driving a station wagon with no registration plates in Portland's Blair Street.​

He has never held a driver's licence or had a permit of any sort.

The registration of the vehicle had been cancelled 12 months before and Winning said two wooden batons found in the vehicle were to hold the bonnet up.

He also failed to appear in court on June 27.