Retractable headlights
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Nothing completed a jaw-dropping sports car like retractable headlights. Introduced on the stunning Cord 810 in 1936, each of its headlamps had a crank on the corresponding side of the dashboard that had to be turned by hand to raise and retract the lamps. Powered headlamps were first used in production, briefly, on Chrysler's 1942 DeSoto. Yet inexplicably, the popularity of retractable headlamps has risen and fallen over time, depending on prevailing automobile fashion.
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