Sleek, stylish, and full of retro charm -- discover the lost art of hidden headlights from the likes of Chevrolet, Oldsmobile ...

As a child of the 1980s who came of age in the early '90s, pop-up headlights are, in my mind, the peak of automotive cool. All the raddest, most interesting cars of my childhood — Lamborghinis ...

Ok, hear me out: Pop-up headlights. I refer to that throwback relic of a time when cars were so pointy, the only way you could engineer a headlight to point forward was to mount it on a swivel.

And that’s the point, because, in most cases, there was an aerodynamic consideration when cars were designed with pop-up headlights. And that’s probably their greatest advantage; they can make a car’s ...

It’s a stock visual in any 1980s movie montage: A character jumps into a cool sports car, revs the engine, and activates the pop-up headlights. Violating the speed limit inevitably follows.

It was the ‘coffin-nosed’ car’s unprecedented ... headlights – not pop-ups in the strictest sense as it was the flush-fitting covers that moved, not the bulky, modified Stinson landing ...