Drug lab found in parked car in Melbourne

Police have found a drug lab being run from inside a parked car on Melbourne's fringes.

Officers on patrol spotted the makeshift arrangement in a station wagon in Lilydale about 3.20am on Sunday.

A 40-year-old man, of no fixed address, was arrested at the scene and is being questioned by police.

A chemist from the Clandestine Laboratory Squad will dismantle the drug laboratory.