64 Dodge 330 High School Drag Racer/ Pizza delivery

[wrecker388]

Right, the only real difference from the 383 to the 440, was the blocks BUT in model form, you'd never see that difference anyway! -383 was a B block and the 440 was an RB block, the difference was made up in the intake manifold! -On a model, you'd not see this!

The decal you used, whats the off of? I ask, as I have a need for 383 air cleaner decals, and I'm trying to locate some for trade of parts and stuff I may have! -NOT seemingly easy, as it seems as I been building more 383's then 440's, so....... I'd also like to get my hands on MORE of the 426 Hemi air cheaner decals as well as the valve cover decals, BUT they just don't seem to be out there.....

Oh I just meant the little 440 decal on the deck lid. It's off the Monogram 70 Roadrunner. Hence the "440 out of dad's totaled Roadrunner"

[Tom Geiger]

Nice model and story.  The irony is that I actually delivered pizza for a Luigi's Pizza the summer after high school.  Thankfully it wasn't open 24 hours!  I delivered them in my '66 Valiant.  The A100 van model I've displayed here was owned by one of my co-workers and delivered pizza as well.

[DaveM]

I delivered pizza for a year or so in a 1969 Cougar that was in very nice shape, clean, quiet and the whole bit.  The interior was clean and sharp, and the car was in excellent repair.  It had one color of paint, no stickers, no primer, no dings.  It was always washed and waxed, the wheels and tires were cleaned regularly...  You all know how car buffs threat their "baby"!  This was in the early Nineties.  The gig was up when the local college's "Save the world" chicks started complaining in the student paper that a few of the delivery vehicles in town weren't "Earth friendly"  and even went to complain to the city council that V-8s, rear wheel drivers and bigger cars should not be allowed to do deliveries.  It didn't get passed as a city ordinance, but the pizza place went to house rules requiring Omnis, Sprints, Escorts, Cavaliers and the like or Japanese cars.  (All 3 or 4 cyl. no turbos, no more than 7 years old...)   A couple of locals who were retired from the auto industry would call in an order and say they wouldn't accept delivery from a Japanese car.  (As did a few WWII veterans, and rightfully so)  I ended up with a Plymouth Sundance that was close enough for them, and I used that until I got a better job.  As everybody else ended up with Japanese cars, I got to deliver to all of the Veterans.  Those were some interesting times!

 

Love the model, and yes, my Cougar did make a few trips down the quarter mile when I had a day off!

[wrecker388]

Thanks Tom and Dave. That's pretty dumb about the "green" cars Dave. If that would happen here I'd start delivering pizza and buy something like a  Prius just to lift it and put the biggest coal rolling diesel I could find in it just to tick them off.