Instruction sheet BLOOPERS

[1972coronet]

36 minutes ago, Mark said:

As an aside, did the 1980 RR have that horn, and did it have the sticker on it?

I've got the 1980 Volare brochure, it makes no mention of Warner Brothers, and the cartoon bird does not appear anywhere on the 1980 Road Runner.  WB of course holds the copyright to the bird but not the Road Runner name itself.

In my 52 years around --42 years since the last Volaré was produced-- I can only recall ever seeing two 1980 R.R.'s in person, neither of which had their hoods open. Heck, I'm not ever sure that the F-body R.R.'s (1976-1980) had the Lavendar colour horn. 

[1972coronet]

1 hour ago, Plowboy said:

Not seeing three mistakes on this. 

The only obvious mistake is ALLORY -- I'm not seeing the other two, either.

[Can-Con]

23 minutes ago, 1972coronet said:

The only obvious mistake is ALLORY -- I'm not seeing the other two, either.

Hilborn and Weiand are both spelled wrong also.

[Vintage AMT]

8 hours ago, Can-Con said:

Hilborn and Weiand are both spelled wrong also.

Correct

Edited August 8, 2022 by Vintage AMT

[Plowboy]

The reason the words are spelled incorrectly is a simple license issue. Note how all three are inside quotations. 

 

Edited August 8, 2022 by Plowboy

[unclescott58]

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Edited August 8, 2022 by unclescott58

[Fat Brian]

The problem with the horn instructions is that it shows to put it where the wiper motor piece should go. The horn is big enough that in that location it can cause the hood and/or air cleaner to not fit correctly. 

[Plowboy]

The reason the Beep Beep horn is a double blunder is:

A. The instructions show to mount it on the firewall.

B. It shouldn't be in a GTX. The GTX didn’t come with that horn. Neither did the '70 Super Bee. But, both instruction sheets show it that way.  

[Plowboy]

Here's a box art blunder. The infamous 429 Corvette.

[W Humble]

It was "Mallory" not 'Allory', and that looks like a Vertex mag to me.  The call-out to the headers misdecribes the part.  The 'valley cover' isn't???  Wick

[stitchdup]

Instruction sheet bloopers are a bit more understandable than this blooper

 

[Bill Anderson]

In the last few years I've gotten back to building the cars of my youth (50s-60s).  I've found that the instructions no longer have the "step by step" verbiage and the exploded pics can be pretty vague as to what exactly goes where exactly.  The kits are from all the major manufacturers (AMT, Revell, Tamiya, etc.), so its not just one company that "could do better" IMO. 

But then it hit me....all of these kits are made overseas, whereas the kits of my youth were all made in America - which again, IMO, would reflect a language barrier that has to constantly be overcome in preparing instruction sheets.   That is certainly understandable, but it sure does give me (and others) a bit more of a challenge.

 

 

[Mike C.]

4 hours ago, stitchdup said:

Instruction sheet bloopers are a bit more understandable than this blooper

 

I remember seeing that one. ?

[SteveG]

On 8/8/2022 at 9:22 AM, Fat Brian said:

The problem with the horn instructions is that it shows to put it where the wiper motor piece should go. The horn is big enough that in that location it can cause the hood and/or air cleaner to not fit correctly. 

Coming soon is AMT1363 '68 Plymouth Roadrunner kit which is a reissue of AMT849 from 2013.  The box art has been freshened, instruction sheet has been fixed with the correct wiper motor part # and graphic. This fix will apply to all the B-body variants that share the same tooling.   

-Steve

Edited August 10, 2022 by SteveG

[Fat Brian]

This one is from the new Revell Land Rover. It had me searching the box trying to see if the exhaust was actually different for left and right hand drive versions.

[Jantrix]

On 8/7/2022 at 3:15 PM, Vintage AMT said:

OK guys enough about the horn  back to the bloopers, there are two on this one...uh, sorry, there are three...

I think that the misspellings were done on purpose. To avoid the red tape of using other companies names.

 

[W Humble]

Rob, et al;

The LR sheet sure looks like the tech artist just flipped the image; far from unusual, but doesn't show much perception of reality -- if building kits has a reality side!

It's funny that a mfr. would purposely mis-spell trademarked names, as opposed to just omitting them; 'magneto, front cover & fuel-injection' without TM's have been used many's the time in my long experience; the mis-spellings just draw negative attention to the sheet.  Having said that, it's obvious that I missed two of 'em, which proves someone's contention that the instructions are just there to dan alternative way to assemble the job!  Apparently I don't read the things?!

"Life is just one damned blooper after another" perhaps?  Wick

[Karl LaFong]

Here's a decal blooper from the 2022 issue of the Revell 1937 Ford truck:

I think I'll pass on the seafood from Captain Lou...

 

Edited August 11, 2022 by Karl LaFong

[Oldcarfan27]

How am I supposed to find instruction bloopers if I don't use the instructions? 

When I flip through them they look alright to me.

[W Humble]

Don't read the blurbs; mistakes abound!  The Revell '57 Ford kit writer that elaborated on the superiority of the 'cow belly' frame of the new '57 versus the 'x-frame' design of the Chevrolet -- when the '57 Chevy still had the ladder frame of the '55-6 cars.*  Cad inaugurated the X design in '57, but it wasn't a selling point, pro or con, until 1958 on the other divisions!   In another kit instruction, the repetition that the Chevy 348-409 W-Motor was 'designed for trucks'; of course it was, but so was the original small-block 265 series, for that matter!  The engineers who designed the W specially stated in an SAE paper of 1956 that was so.  And more.

This list is long: repeating urban legend, over-generalization, just plain guesswork -- but who reads those?

*Yep, only the front frame horns on the '57 were boxed to support the new catfish-mouth grille/bumper.  Been there.

[Draggon]

This was a pretty well known box art error. Funny thing is that I had this for over 20 years and never noticed it!

[Mike C.]

8 hours ago, Draggon said:

This was a pretty well known box art error. Funny thing is that I had this for over 20 years and never noticed it!

Ha! Looks like a funhouse mirror.

[oldscool]

On 8/10/2022 at 9:39 AM, SteveG said:

Coming soon is AMT1363 '68 Plymouth Roadrunner kit which is a reissue of AMT849 from 2013.  The box art has been freshened, instruction sheet has been fixed with the correct wiper motor part # and graphic. This fix will apply to all the B-body variants that share the same tooling.   

-Steve

Well it's about time (sarcasm).?

[Draggon]

4 hours ago, Mike C. said:

Ha! Looks like a funhouse mirror.

I just grabbed the pic off of ebay, it's not actually distorted. The blooper is "Ford Coupe" when it's a sedan. It wsa changed on later boxes.

[ZTony8]

On 8/7/2022 at 5:15 PM, Vintage AMT said:

OK guys enough about the horn  back to the bloopers, there are two on this one...uh, sorry, there are three...

Three spelling errors- "Mallory", "Weiand", "Hilborn"