{"id":43222,"date":"2011-11-29T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/?p=43222"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:00:11","slug":"27th-svra-collier-cup-race-bucher-decker-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/27th-svra-collier-cup-race-bucher-decker-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"27th SVRA Collier Cup Race &#038; Bucher\/Decker Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SVRA_cropped-142x144-1.jpg\" alt=\"27th SVRA Collier Cup Race &amp; Bucher\/Decker Trophy\" width=\"142\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43223\" \/>Much will be written about racers who struggled to find their way to Watkins Glen for this year\u2019s SVRA US Vintage Grand Prix with the Southern Tier Expressway shut down due to massive flooding and related mischief. Nonetheless, the race went on with weather being a minimal factor for racers who braved the detours and washed out roads.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the MGVR gang had a great time racing in their groups while anticipating the Saturday afternoon Collier Cup race. Forty five MGs including eight MGAs signed on for this year\u2019s Collier Cup race; by the green flag attrition took its toll as forty MGs took to the track.<\/p>\n<p>In the Late 1950s a competitive, and yet friendly, rivalry developed between two upstate New York MGA racers. Bob Bucher and Sherm Decker won the Collier Cup in identically prepared MGAs (incidentally prepared by Sherm Decker) from 1956 through 1959. NAMGAR honors the memory of these two racers, competitors and friends, by awarding the Bucher\/Decker Memorial Trophy annually to the highest placed MGA in the Collier Cup race.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2_Treffert_BD_Winner_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Treffert\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43224\" \/>This year\u2019s winner, Bill Treffert, is the second Treffert to win this prize; Todd Treffert won last year. Not too far behind was Bill\u2019s daughter, Dawn Myers, a rookie MGA racer who is running among veterans after only four races! Third MGA this year was Mark Brandow in his beautiful gray MGA roadster, followed by speedy David Good, and Tom Baumgardner. #222 Dick Powers, a Collier Cup veteran, finished barely ahead of Bob Schoeplein. Bringing up the rear with more than his share of MGA gremlins was Twin Cam Jim Holody, who traded in his twinkie for the John Burgess ex-Sebring MGA.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners included Charles Guest\/Midget (Cornett Trophy for first place), Don Munoz\/MGB GT V-8, second overall, John McCue\/Midget, third overall (Glanville Trophy for Midgets), Manley Ford\/MGTD (Jack Archibald trophy for first production T Series). This year\u2019s Collier Cup winner, as selected by the MG vintage racers who participated in the 27th Collier Cup race, was Larry Smith.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Collier_Cup_Winners_resized.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Collier Cup Winners\" width=\"250\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43225\" \/>Collier Cup Race Winners (L to R) Bill Treffert, Charles Guest, Manley Ford, John McCue, Larry Smith, Don Munoz.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all MG vintage racers who participated in this year\u2019s Collier Cup race for MGs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much will be written about racers who struggled to find their way to Watkins Glen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-namgar-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}