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The 1985 Domino’s Pizza delivery car looks more like it was designed to shoot down invading alien spacecraft than to bring you a hot delicious pepperoni pie. But back in the ’80s, Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan ordered 10 Tritan A2 cars and customized them with warming ovens in the back to deliver pizzas around Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Domino’s is headquartered.

Just a few survive today. One of them is being offered for sale at a Las Vegas classic car auction on November 10. Even the car’s current owner admits, it’s pretty terrible to drive and probably wasn’t even that great at delivering pizza. But it does look awfully cool.

The Tritan A2 was designed by engineers James Amick and his son Douglas. It’s similar to a series of other vehicles they designed with large arch-shaped rear wings. The wings were designed to capture crosswinds to help provide forward propulsion, like a sail, along with electric motors or gasoline engines. It’s unclear if this particular model, with its relatively modest rear wing, benefits appreciably from wind propulsion. (CNN attempted to reach Douglas Amick but has not received a response.)


The downside of the car’s arrow-head shape is that it’s not very practical as an automobile. The pizza oven was removed long ago but, still, the A2 can carry only two people, one behind the other. (With its fiberglass body riding on only three wheels, the A2 is actually considered a motorcycle for regulatory purposes.) Instead of traditional doors, it has a canopy that slides forward so occupants can get in and out.