Three Mopar Survivor Cars Back on the Road: Two Have Hemis the Other is a 6BBL!

Plymouth technician Ted Robinson owned these drag race, day two Plymouths. His daughter and family friend got them running again.

- Scotty Lachenauer

Jerry Breznicky followed a hot-rodding trail that led him to his first job right after high school. “I attended vocational school, majoring in auto mechanics, and at that time I was driving my brother’s hand-me-down Road Runner,” he says. “I luckily landed a job at my local Plymouth dealership right after graduation. It was a dream come true.”

At the dealership, Jerry got the chance to work alongside Ted Robinson, a longtime Plymouth employee who oozed Pentastar knowledge. “From the start, Ted taught me the right way to work on these cars,” Jerry says. “Though he was a great teacher, Ted was quiet and didn’t talk about himself much.”

One day, when Jerry decided to add some new gears to his Road Runner for drag racing, Ted gave the young gun a taste of his expertise with Plymouth products. “When I told Ted what I was doing, he looked at me and said, ‘Why are you putting in 4.10 gears when it came with 3.91s?’ I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ He replied, ‘You have a 26-inch radiator and power-steering cooler, so this car has the factory Track Pak option.’ I crawled under the car and found the tag and the HD leaf springs. He was right.”