Seeing red over scrap Standard

I am incandescent with rage over your report (1 November), regarding the Ford dealer, Dunnets of Thurso’s bid to scrap a perfectly good 1959 Standard Ten.

Apparently, the owner advertised the car, but there was no buyer. If I had known about it, I would have bought it! Also, why did the Standard Motor Club not buy it, and why haven’t they bought it now? The owner was obviously not a classic car enthusiast, otherwise he would not be getting rid of it.

The whole scheme is all about money, not the environment, from both the owners’ point of view and that of Ford.

Having owned two Standard Tens – one seen regularly at Goodwood and one ex-1955 and 1956 Monte Carlo Rally and driven two others hundreds of miles in the 1950s – I know how good they are.

If the car for scrappage was beyond restoring, it wouldn’t be so bad, but the one in question looked excellent. John Carlton, by email As reported in our 8 November issue, the car has had a stay of execution but probably won’t return to the road – Ed.