Fighting classic scrappage
The race was on to stop classics falling victim of manufacturer-backed scrappage schemes. While classic-owning MP Sir Greg Knight had just lent his support to a CCW- backed petition on the issue, there were just three weeks left to gain the 10,000 required signatures.
The online petition – prompted by a Standard Ten’s lucky escape from a Ford-backed scheme – fell short of the necessary number of signatures needed to be debated in Parliament but it did get enough to require a response from the Department for Transport.
Tipped off by the Standard Motor Club’s Scottish Group (which in turn was alerted by waste management firm, Speedy Skips, which spared the Standard when it arrived in its yard), a team from our sister magazine Practical Classics was able to save the car and find it a temporary home in the Dundee Museum of Transport – albeit with its Certificate of Destruction (CoD) marker still in place.
With the car now having spent a year on display, negotiations are taking place with the DVLA to rescind the car’s marker, allowing the Ten to take to the road again.
Group leader for the Standard Motor Club’s Scottish Group, Bob Alexander, said: ‘The car’s got a place waiting for it at a new independent motor museum in Thurso, three miles from where it was supplied new.’
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