Everyone knows that headlights are the eyes of a car. They’re how your car sees and how you see at night! Per Jason Torchinsky logic, then, maybe headlights should be easy, right? Well, nobody told Lincoln that.
Jason wrote a Cold Start about the headlights of the Mark VI, which are actually behind two headlight-sized auxiliary lamps. Yeah, it’s absurd. Alexk98:
In honor of yesterdays post, I nominate this as the perfect face to graft onto the front of a Cybertruck.
TriangleRAD:
The unfinished look of door-concealed headlights when they were open was common across the brands that used them. I can only assume the designers assumed that those doors would only be open when it was dark out and the headlights were on, therefore no one would be able to see the bare steel and mechanical bits behind the bulbs.
Of course, when the doors stopped working (as they did VERY often), this assumption was thrown on its head.
Larry B:
Great. It’s taken me 40 years to erase these from my memory. I don’t know if I have another 40 years in me so I have contend with the thought that this will be my last image before I expire.
Jason also wrote about how the cheaper Tesla Model Y’s ‘Closed Glass Roof’ is a joke. Also, a joke, but a funny one, is a comment from Canopysaurus:
Glassholes.
Finally, Brian handled the Morning Dump, and Alexk98 got me with this comment:
Nissan Could Supply Rebadged Rogue Hybrids To Ford Or Stellantis
It’s very nice of Nissan to try to help improve Ford and Stellantis build quality and reliability.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Top graphic image: Lincoln
I prefer the Cars hypothesis, that the windshield is the eyes and the headlights are some kind of sensory thing, like an angler fish.
shhhhhh! don’t mention the ‘C’ movie when Torch is around!
He does have a rather disturbingly plausible theory on that subject
Wow a double! Don’t think I’ll be able to do that again. Thanks Mercedes!
It would be criminally negligent to have a week of headlight stories and not cover the glorious clampshell headlights of the first gen Riviera, as well as the drop-down ones in the 2nd gen Rivs.
Don’t just look at the pics of them hidden vs exposed. Look at the mechanisms doing the work and how they fold away when hidden.
Amazing mechanisms indeed, but for wacky hidden headlight mechanisms, I’ll take the Opel GT with it’s rollover headlights.
The roll over headlights of the Opel GT were cool. The flip around ones of the C3 Corvette were awesome as well. Come to think about it, GM had a near lock on sick looking hidden headlights in the 60s, 70s and even early 80s. The Camaro had the sliding panel.