The last car with pop up headlights?

[TheCaseAce]

I hate popup headlights...

My mum's Volvo 480ES had them, and when the motor in one of them broke she was too tight to pay the £100+ to fix it, so made the dealership jam it in the up position

Maybe 4 or 5 times per journey, people would point and laugh at the winking car.

All very traumatic when you are 13 and dying to be cool.

[Vario-Rob]

williamp said:

Vario-Rob said:

Chassis 33 said:

So what you're actually saying is that there is still, technically, but tenuously, in production. In that case...
Ladies and gentlemen we have have ourselves a winner, the DeTomaso Guara.
Regards
Iain

Iain, What is more there is a photograph of it sat up on the blocks in build in the previous DTDC magazine to support this claim which I will see if I can get copied and posted

Unfortunately nothing has actually happened on it for over three years but there she sits pop up lights and all.

What a winner! Any chace of seeimg some more images of the car? Both in the fanctosy, and a fully compleated one. wahts it like? A think the car deserves a bit of attention.

Factory shots will have to wait until I can find the last edition of the DTDC magazine, there was a particularly artistic shot of a load of old Guara exhausts sat in a bin round the back of the factory.

That said there is an international convention back at the factory in May 09 to celebrate the 50th anniversary so a good few from the UK will be going over the Alps. Personally I’ll be taking a Transit and hoping we can get access, I’ve been quoted £2500 for a windscreen off the former German concessionaire!

Just one more for now but will add so more later on.




She will be featured in a car magazine in the next few months, more details to follow.

Oh yes, a quick Guara Factoid, it got to 144 mph at the last VMax and was utterly bloody terrifying

[pmanson]

Munter said:

LuS1fer said:

Thousands of two-l Phillips in Wales and they never get called Phih-llip either as you might think...

Oi I'm not welsh I was born 2 miles from the border I'll have you know.

Anyway just make sure when you book plane tickets over the phone they know it's 2 ls.... Otherwise you struggle to check in with some people....

without taking this topic even further o/t are you phill with two L's or just one?

I spell it with two and people always question it saying it should be just the one.

[pmanson]

Munter said:

LuS1fer said:

Thousands of two-l Phillips in Wales and they never get called Phih-llip either as you might think...

Oi I'm not welsh I was born 2 miles from the border I'll have you know.

Anyway just make sure when you book plane tickets over the phone they know it's 2 ls.... Otherwise you struggle to check in with some people....

without taking this topic even further o/t are you phill with two L's or just one?

I spell it with two and people always question it saying it should be just the one.

[Agent57]

1998–2003 (Ferrari 456M)
1976–2004 (Esprit) Last Esprit rolled off the production line on February 20, 2004
1997–2004 (Corvette C5) October 1, 1996 – July 2, 2004

So the Corvette wins.

Think I'll hang on to my MR2 for a few more years. I'm sure pop-up headlights must add some value to any car.

[AdeTuono]

Agent57 said:

1998–2003 (Ferrari 456M)
1976–2004 (Esprit) Last Esprit rolled off the production line on February 20, 2004
1997–2004 (Corvette C5) October 1, 1996 – July 2, 2004

So the Corvette wins.

Think I'll hang on to my MR2 for a few more years. I'm sure pop-up headlights must add some value to any car.

So the same answer as 13 years ago then. Thanks for the input.

[generationx]

Drinking in the morning can be confusing.