T.V., Movie and literary screw-ups.....

I have an eye for detail so it really drives me up the wall when something stupid is done in a big-budget movie or T.V. show. The most recent one that really irks me is "Vegas" starring Micheal Chiklis ( "The Shield", "Fantastic 4" ) Dennis Quaid, and and Carrie Ann Moss ( "The Matrix" trilogy ). The series is set in 1960. Yet, Quaid drives a 1964 Dodge pickup, Moss has a 1963 T-Bird, and Chiklis has a 1962 Lincoln with the suicide doors.  Arrrrrggghhh!!!  In one episode a gangster robs a bank and torches the getaway car-a 1964 Dodge 330 sedan!!  Yet the series is supposedly set in 1960!!  And the executive producer is Nicholas Pileggi- who did "Goodfellas", and "American Gangster".  You'd think they could afford to hire someone who knew what cars to use!!  This isn't an isolated incident, Hollywood does it all the time. I guess they just don't care, but it really takes something away from the movie or show for me. A few examples-in "White Lightning"-Burt Reynolds brown Ford whiskey runner-in some scenes it's a four-speed; the camera shows the Hurst shifter and him shifting it. In others, they show him putting the automatic column shifter in park. The same for "Smokey and the Bandit" in some scenes the black T/A is a 4-speed,-again the cameras occasionally show the clutch pedal and him shifting it.  In others you can clearly see the automatic shifter on the console. In "Bullitt" the Charger loses 8 hubcaps in the chase, and they pass the same VW three times. On the "Rockford Files" which ran from 1974-82- James Garner's "Mike Hammer" type- Private Eye initially drove a '74 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400 with the Ram Air hood and rear spoiler for the first few seasons. Then it was a '77 or '78 base model with a flat hood and no spoiler, and finally an '81 Formula with the simulated scoops. The '70-81 F-bodies were basically the same, but the front end, taillights and hood is where all the changes were! Plus the '74 model had the flat rear window, the 75 and later models had the wraparound rear glass. I guess since they were all gold with Rally II wheels the producers figured no one would notice. Well, we did!  In the original "Fright Night" ( The classic with Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell, not the remake with Colin Farrell ) hero William Ragsdale drives a '65 Mustang fastback, that his mother, his girlfriend and shop teacher refer to constantly as a "'68".  In "The Butcher" Eric Roberts plays an ex-boxer turned mob enforcer. Everyone he meets comments on his "Original" 1969 Charger; the only problem was the car on screen was a '73!!  In the Stephen King  thriller "The Dark Half" the killer drives a Jet-black 1969 Olds Toronado. That's all well and good.  However King alludes to it being a Hurst-shifted 4-speed as a "Macho Man" like George Stark wouldn't have it any other way, and talks about him smoking the rear tires. The problem, if you don't know is every Toronado ever made since they were introduced in 1966 has had an automatic transmission and is FRONT-WHEEL DRIVE!!!  He should have had Stark drive a Pontiac Gran Prix-which is rear-wheel drive, had engines either 400 or 428 cubic inches, and was available with a Hurst-shifted 4-speed from the factory.  Do some research guys!!! Mastermind