However, I have always romanticized the era of pop-up headlights. It gave us some legendary cars that still wow enthusiasts today and, crucially, made cars look uber cool. Pop-up headlights were ...

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 ...

There's something undeniably awesome about pop-up headlights - but you don't see this anymore on modern cars. But what if you ...

Based on the advanced mechanicals of the rare and desirable Fiat 8V, the coachbuilt Siata 208 wore aggressive yet attractive ...

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 ...

While these five awesome classics became iconic, their innovative rear wing and spoiler designs also reached the same status ...

so its exorbitant price tag is probably one of the few reasons its manufacturers were able to work in pop-up headlights. Not all customization kits are meant to turn cars into hot rods.

It got me thinking about the cars I grew up with in the '70s and my own clunker collection from throughout the years. They seemed totally normal back then, but now, they've got this retro cool factor.

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

When the Acura NSX was first unveiled at the 1989 Chicago Motor Show it was a complete step away from the brand’s family car ...