A Chevrolet Caprice police car in No Country for Old Men, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and set in 1980, displays composite-style headlights disguised to resemble period sealed-beam lamps.
Close inspection shows what appears to be black gaffer’s tape splitting a single wide rectangular composite lamp into the appearance of two sealed beams.
Composite rectangular headlamps did not appear on this Caprice generation until a 1986 facelift, which makes the lighting detail an anachronism for the film’s 1980 timeframe.
The third-generation Chevrolet Caprice ran from 1977 to 1990 with subgeneration changes for 1977–1979, 1980–1985 and 1986–1990, so only early‑1980 models would be period‑correct.
This report is based on information originally published by The Autopian.
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