[Lee Stewart]

When Cord unveiled its 810 at the 1935 New York Auto Show, complete with pop-up headlights, it caused a sensation.

Nobody had ever created anything like it but it would be another 30 years before the technology would become more widely adopted. By the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s pop-up headlights had become mainstream, but by 2004 they'd been banned worldwide, for safety reasons.