Pop-up headlights, also referred to as flip-up headlights or hidden headlamps, were prominent features on sports cars from the ’80s and ‘90s. The pop-up headlight feature gave cars more ...

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 ... It hardly seemed to matter. Pop-up headlights were considered, at various peaks from the ’60s to the ’90s, the height of cool.