Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) an automobile.

1902		T.A. Dorgan ‘Johnny Wise’ [comic strip] in Blackbeard & Williams Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics 23: John also ‘springs’ for an automobubble ride .
1904		‘Hugh McHugh’ I’m from Missouri 58: When it comes to handling an automobuzzard you have old Bill Gray stung through the porous plaster.
1914		S. Lewis Our Mr Wrenn (1936) 164: I met a prof. there from some American college – he hired an automobubble and took me down to a reg’lar old inn.
1922		B.L. Taylor Penny Whistle 54: He eluded without the least trouble / The fool-driven automobubble.
1942		C.B. Davis Follow the Leader 112: She hasn't got any red automobubble to ride in.
1953		J. Laurie Ville 476: First we bought an automobubble / And that started all the trouble.
1968		G. Swarthout Loveland 103: Do we go for spins in their big automobubbles? [HDAS].
1997		Yuppie Fuzzbox [title] Automobubble.
2002		Mavra ‘The Family That Stays Together’ 🌐 My brother, John, took his car and left around ten-thirty, four hours earlier. I would’ve joined him, if I could’ve fit and his automobubble could’ve handled the weight.