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I sold my pregnant roller skate.

That's what a photographer named it…

It was a Subaru 360 (circa 1968 or something). A yellow, two-stroke engine of a "car" that made a VW bug look like a Hummer. Now, after 33 years, it's gone.

I bought the Soob when I moved to Riverside in '76. I was a 20-something reporter. My wife was unemployed. We needed a second (cheap) car. We snapped up the used Soob (16K miles) for $700.

It was so tiny it parked on a dime. It got 25 mpg, not bad three decades ago. It was cute with a shaggy dog in the back seat.