My first car was a 68 Dodge Charger. The headlamp doors didn't work when I bought it used in 1974, but I would manually open and close them by hand because I thought the car looked so much better with the covers down. Wasn't smart enough of a mechanic at 16 years old to actually know how to fix them to work properly. I do remember a few nights driving home from work with people flashing their lights at me because I forgot to flip the doors open. Still one of my favorite looking cars. Wish people would have read the beginning of this article so they would not be commenting about vehicles with pop up headlamps instead of fixed covered headlamps. Save the pop ups for a future article.
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