Well, I don't work in bad areas for the most part. The Pizza Hut I just got hired at only has middle class neighborhoods or higher in it. I live in one of the poorer neighborhoods in the delivery area and my house has more than doubled in value in the last 5 years. I delivered pizza for 10 years and never once got robbed despite having delivered in some of the "Ghetto" areas of the stores I worked in. In the 10 years I delivered, I have only heard of a driver getting robbed in a store I worked in once. If your inside people are smart and can recognize the signs of a robbery waiting to happen, things can be done to insure the safety of the driver and the run does not get sent out. I was a Domino's General Manager until last Sunday ( did it for 1.5 yrs) and if a private line came in, I made sure the number was called back to establish a link between the call and caller. That makes it easy for the police to trace them. We also had caller ID and no one was allowed to change the number that came in on the caller ID for the same reason. We also had a policy that if the driver does not feel the situation is safe, he can choose not to take the delivery. I did this once in the ghetto when the house I was delivering to had a bunch of kids hanging around in the street in front of the house. I called the customer and explained the situation. They told the kids to get lost and I took the delivery.
As for the car, I had painted it before it was a delivery car, but it got hit 2 weeks after it was painted. It looked nice from one side, but the dent in the 1/4 made it look bad on the other. I did use it to deliver in more recently, but that was because I was stuck driving it due to a difficult to trace misfire in cylinder #3 in my truck. I also had wanted to do it once more for old time's sake.