Tribute to Pop Up Headlights

Wow! Congrats, that's a great piece.

All these years I've been trying to find alternatives to those silly bug eyes - and now you give me a whole new way to look at them.

Thanks.

Excellent. I work for a global automotive lighting supplier and we have different versions for LED headlights being produced and also in design for new models. I'm done a little work on trying to find a low profile projector that could be integrated into our light "can" without the need to cut it up. The good and bad of it is: Good: pulls very little power. Bad: can't take heat. We use fans to blow air on the LED to keep it from over heating.
The pop ups look much better with a bezel and half open with the lower profile.
Thanks for the video.

LOVE IT! "It ain't nothin'" without pop-ups! Now I feel in good company!

Well Done Chris! Lot of very rare cars in there ... looks like you had to do a bit of travel to get to them too ... California plates on some, Ohio, Michigan, Montana, a few euro plates. I recognize shots from Italian Car Day north of Toronto as well with the the DeTomaso flags in the background, but didn't see any Panteras from that show - was that back in 2012? I think that's the year there were none of us were able to make it

Looking forward to Part 2 ... maybe you can find a 365 California to co-operate by then

I own 3 cars with pop-up headlights. 1991 Ferrari Testarossa, 1972 DeTomaso Pantera, 1972 Lotus Elan Plus 2.

I would have enjoyed your video more, if each car would have been identified as Year/Make/Model...Mark

Great effort! V2 should include a Mangusta (US 2-lamps). Thanks for sharing.

Mark

Thank you for all of your kind comments and feedback, guys!

I'm wondering, does anyone have or know someone who has a Mangusta a with the popups and a Pantera Si? I am considering doing a Volume 2 of this video and I definitely can't do without those cars!

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Originally posted by #5754:
Well Done Chris! Lot of very rare cars in there ... looks like you had to do a bit of travel to get to them too ... California plates on some, Ohio, Michigan, Montana, a few euro plates. I recognize shots from Italian Car Day north of Toronto as well with the the DeTomaso flags in the background, but didn't see any Panteras from that show - was that back in 2012? I think that's the year there were none of us were able to make it

Looking forward to Part 2 ... maybe you can find a 365 California to co-operate by then

There definitely was a lot of travel in there! The Euro cars, however, were sent to me via email from the owners. Finding a Lotus Excel in the US would be nearly impossible!
And you are correct, there were several cars shown from the Italian Car Day! It probably was 2012 that you are seeing, because I do remember a year when there were no De Tomasos there.

Chris

I enjoyed the presentation! I thought I was going to be able to mention a couple, but they showed up in the last few minutes.

Really great to see' did have a Triumhp TR 7, now I have 2: a Porsche 968 convertible and the Pantera. Wierdest to me is the Opel GT.


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What was the car with the double pop up headlights?

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Originally posted by tajon:
What was the car with the double pop up headlights?

That's a Cizeta (pronounced Chee-zeh-tah) V16t. Only about a dozen were made. It was famous for having an authentic V16 engine, and also for being built from the ground up instead of using off the shelf parts from other manufacturers.

Chris

Nice video Chris!!!! I didn't know you were here on the forum, glad to have ya!!
Jeff

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Originally posted by OSOFAST:
Nice video Chris!!!! I didn't know you were here on the forum, glad to have ya!!
Jeff

Thank you Jeff! Good to hear from you! Was it the MSU show that we met at?

Chris

Yep!
Jeff

One of the Cizettas showed up at our Monterey Historics corral at Laguna Seca some years ago, driven by the designer. He certainly wasn't afraid to rev the engine to redline to show off the sound!