Why can't famous writers hire Proofreaders??

I read a lot-Mostly James Lee Burke, Micheal Connelly, John Sandford, Stephen Hunter, John Grisham, Lee Child. Other stuff friends recommend. It drives me up the wall when they make glaring mistakes about cars or other things. If your going to be specific-then make sure damn sure your right. Or if you don't know-the editor should ask someone who does before printing the book with these goofs. Some examples-in Stephen King's "The Dark Half"- the killer drives a black '60's Olds Toronado. A cool ride for a gangster. No problem there. Except then King writes how a "Macho Man" like "George Stark" would have to have a Hurst-shifted 4-speed stick, and smokes the rear tires!!! This made my head want to explode- Because-introduced in 1966-ALL Toronados were not only automatics, they were FRONT-WHEEL-DRIVE!!!  I know what King was trying to do-he should have had the character driving a Pontiac Gran Prix-a Gran Prix was a big, rear-wheel drive, personal luxury / performance car with a big V8-depending on year-either 389,400, 421 or 428 cubes- and they were available with a Hurst shifted Muncie 4-speed. A black GP smoking the tires as long as he wanted to stay on the throttle would have been perfect.  In Stephen Hunter's "Night of Thunder" about a plot to rob a NASCAR Race, and a hit man who kills with a musclecar-a Dodge Charger. Except he talks about the car having a 6.7 liter Hemi. Ugh! Since bringing the Charger back in 2005-over the years it's been available with a 5.7 liter Hemi, a 6.1 and a 6.4. The 707 hp "Hellcat" has a Supercharged 6.2 V8.  But never in the last 15 years has ANY Charger ever had a 6.7 liter engine!!  Not ever. In fact the only 6.7 liter engine Chrysler does make is the Turbo Diesel in Heavy-Duty Ram Trucks!!  It sounds like I'm being nit-picky-but the car plays a big part-and theirs a lot of tech talk about NASCAR Race cars and about how the gang hops up their getaway truck. If your going to have a lot of gearhead language in an action-adventure novel-then make sure it's right!!  Stephen King again screws up in "Christine". About the gawky teen who gets posessed by the spirit of his '58 Plymouth Fury's evil previous owner. He talks about it having a 392 V8 with dual-quads. Howver the 392 Hemi was not available in '58 Furys. There were 2 engines-a standard 318 V8 and and optional 350 inch V8. And neither were Hemis. I can't remember the title-but a friend gave me a book written by Danielle Steel-a famous author-about a group of young men who got sent to Viet Nam in 1965. Ok, except one of the main characters wanted a Camaro!!  Camaro's debuted in 1967!!  In 1965 he would wanted a Mustang, or maybe a GTO-both hot-cars in 1965-but Camaros didn't exist!!  Ugh! If your going to be specific-be sure your right. Movies and TV do it too. One of the worst offenders was "Cold Case". Where they'd solve old unsolved murders. One was about a teenage boy that got killed in 1972. Except showing the kid's room in the "flashback" part that they always did-on his wall are posters of a barefoot Farrah Fawcett-Majors on the hood of a White and Blue Mustang II-obviously a promo shot for "Charlie's Angels"-and of Jacqueline Bisset in the wet-t-shirt from "The Deep".  Except "Charlie's Angels" premiered in 1976, and "The Deep" was released in 1977!!  So how did the kid have these posters in 1972??  They should been of Raquel Welch from "Hannie Caulder" or "Kansas City Bomber" or even "One Million Years B.C." Or Ali McGraw from "The Getaway".  Or the posters didn't even have to be of women. He could have had a poster of Joe Namath or the "Bullitt" poster-"There are good cops and there are bad cops" "And then there's Bullitt".  Maybe I'm too much of a perfectionist-but it ruins the book or the movie for me when that stuff happens.  Mastermind   

COVID-19 caused me to lose my job and have to restructure some things. Sorry I was gone so long, but I'm back now...

Check Ford's great ad for the "Bullitt" Mustang. It has Steve McQueen's grand-daughter-a smokin' hot blonde-driving it, and a Charger is chasing her. Way Cool. The best Ford  ad since 1975-when a pre-"Charlie's Angel's" Farrah-Fawcett-Majors drove a white Cougar down to the beach, kicked off her heels and stripped off the cocktail dress and played barefoot in a skimpy white bikini with a live Cougar. I'll get back to posting on a regular basis as soon as things get a little more normal,