A while back, on ebay (see where I spend my time?) there was a '78 factory 440 short fat bed, either white or light blue, and I THINK the mag article shown with it mentioned that there were only (74?) less than a hundred 440 trucks?

Seems like there would have been more, counting 250s and 350s.

I know at dad's dealership we only sold one, a short/fat W150 adventurer, guy plowed snow with it commercially, it got rusty, patched, and from there, IDK.

Maybe that is where the 74 number came from?

It takes gasoline to interest me.