This Microcar Existed Only to Deliver Domino's Pizza

Much like the United States Post Office and your local police department, Domino's Pizza is a brand with very specialized automotive needs rarely met by the cars on the market today. The pizza company has more recently solved its problems with specialized Chevrolet Sparks and a fleet of new Bolt EVs, but the brand tried something much more inventive in the Eighties. The company commissioned ten three-wheeled microcars for the sole purpose of delivering pizza, and at least two of those survived to escape into private hands.

The Tritan A2 certainly looks extreme, with a space shuttle-like exterior ending in a massive, hoop-shaped rear wing. That makes it the perfect fit for a dramatic local pizza delivery within 30 minutes, so long as your pizza delivery driver is willing to put up with the restrictions that come when you buy single-seat cars with a sliding canopy roof. Back in this car's glory days, the rear bench area had a pizza warmer that kept the precious cargo fresh.

This particular microcar lost its pizza warmer long ago, along with its single-rotor Wankel engine and transmission. Add in some visible interior rust and the Tritan is a big of a project, but the car still sold for $25,500 in a Bring a Trailer auction that ended on Wednesday. If the new owner gets it back on the road, there is still a chance they spot another one: An Instagram account for another "Pizza Rocket" suggests that at least one of the other nine Domino's-spec Tritan A2s has survived into this decade.

Bring a Trailer is also owned by Road & Track's parent company, Hearst Autos.

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