Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Factual error: When Eleven is handed M&Ms in the hospital she is given green and red. Red M&Ms were not reintroduced until 1987. (00:42:28)
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Visible crew/equipment: While Bruce chases after Nancy and Jonathan they hide in the OR, then Nancy picks up the red phone and shouts, and in the following closeup of the ceiling mounted domed light, the upside-down reflection of a crew member wearing shorts and sneakers can be seen quickly. A few minutes later, after Jonathan jabs scissors into Tom's throat, when Jonathan leans back out-of-breath there's another closeup of the surgical light, and we can see the upside-down reflection of the cameraman's arm and part of the camera as it moves closer, then it's visible again a few shots later. (00:43:10 - 00:46:40)
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Factual error: When Hopper steals the yellow convertible at the gas station mini mart, the gas pumps have vapor recovery boots on the nozzles. Those weren't in use for another half decade.
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Audio problem: When Joyce, Alexi and Hopper go to Murray's, Murray points a double barrel shotgun at them and it makes a sound of a pump action shotgun.
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: Eleven and Mike are sitting next to each other at the hospital. Eleven looks to her left in one shot and the camera changes angles. She's now looking straight ahead and immediately looks to the left again.
Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum - S3-E6
Factual error: When the Russian requests the cherry flavor and refuses to talk, he gets thrown out. At the back is an oil drum from the French energy company "Total." However that logo was introduced only in the mid 2000s. (00:11:55)
Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: When the librarian picks up the phone he picks up the one in the middle, in the next shot we see he has the one to the left and when he hangs up it's the one in the center again.
Chapter Seven: The Bite - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: At the very beginning the band the camera pans by is totally different from the one standing behind the mayor later on. For one there are no more clarinet players, a cymbal player suddenly appears right behind where the mayor stands and the drummers are 3 totally different boys, with the 3rd from the right missing his glasses suddenly and the second drummer being much shorter. (00:00:40 - 00:01:15)
Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt - S3-E8
Factual error: Because of the way radios work, when Suzie and Dustin are singing their duet they wouldn't be able to hear each other and the rest of the party would only hear a garbled mess. Per frequency only one radio should transmit at each time, so all the others can receive. If multiple radios are transmitting simultaneously, the signals will overlap and result in unintelligible noise. (00:35:53)
Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt - S3-E8
Factual error: The value of Planck's constant used in the show, 6.62607004 is the value that was measured in 2014. The value that was in use in 1985 was 6.626176. The value was updated again in 2018, to 6.62607015.
Chapter One: The Hellfire Club - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: Tammy Thompson's voice changes octaves as she sings the National Anthem. At the start, she's in a normal mezzo range. When the camera cuts from her to the back-and-forth dialogue between Steve, Robin, and Vickie, her voice then changes downscale to a very noticeable alto.
Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: When El advances on Angela and her friends at the skating rink and wallops Angela in the face with the skate, her aim is upwards at the lower cusp of Angela's nose for the impact. When Angela's friends sit her up in the following shot, the area between her eyes is cracked and bleeding instead as she screams in agony.
Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: After Mike kisses El on the forehead, Jonathan is in the back grabbing his glasses from his pocket. In one shot, he's grabbing them out, and then the next shot has them at waist-level.
Chapter Five: The Nina Project - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: The seat belt keeps appearing and reappearing on Nancy's shoulder as she's driving.
Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: Eddie is still wearing a denim vest he took off his body and threw at Steve a few seconds earlier. When the camera cuts away and back, the vest is gone again. (00:15:19)
Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab - S4-E7
Other mistake: When Hooper was trying to light the alcohol-soaked rag to make a torch, his lighter wasn't working at first. He finally got a flame at the last minute. However, the sparks alone should have been enough to ignite the flammable rag. (01:00:33 - 01:02:03)
Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab - S4-E7
Plot hole: The upside down should be mirrored, i.e. all left is right and right is left. When the team finds a gateway where Chrissy died, they should be seeing a mirror image through the ceiling. Also, all buildings should have been reversed. Directions to get there on the bike would have been confusing and reversed, and when any writing was seen in the upside down, it would have been backward.
Continuity mistake: Eleven makes the helicopter fall from the sky and blow up some army vehicles. Within a cut, it's much earlier in the day as the sun is right above her. Prior to this, it was lower in the sky and returns that way as she and the rest of the crew are driving away.
Answer: They're both muscle cars, but that's about the extent of the similarities. But the 70's were filled with a lot of muscle cars, so some car models may look a bit like another's. Billy's car is a late 70's Chevy Camaro (probably a ‘79). Mad Max's car is a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT. Incidentally, the Ford Falcon was produced by Ford Australia and wasn't an American car, or even sold in America (as in not sold at dealerships).
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According to the experts its a Camaro '78 with added vented side fenders.