I did buy this one back when it was originally issued (sometime in the mid- to late seventies, if I remember right). I don't remember a great deal about it, and I haven't seen it since. But what I do remember isn't favorable.
The big problem with this subject, of course, is that there's scarcely any reliable information about what the real ship looked like. Jean Boudriot, the dean of French naval architectural history in the sailing ship period, did publish a book about her some years back (in the late eighties, I think - long after the Aurora kit appeared). He drew a detailed set of plans - entirely reconstructed. They're based on a set of lines for a French East Indiaman of the period that came from the same designer and yard as Le Duc de Duras (the Bonhomme Richard's original name). M. Boudriot himself would be the first to emphasize that those plans amount to educated guesswork (very educated guesswork in this case). But in any case, they don't look much like the Aurora kit.
My recollection of the kit is that, like the others in the series (the Hartford, Sea Witch, and Wanderer) it was long on good intentions but short on accuracy and detail. There weren't many parts, and most of the details were pretty basic. (I think - though I'm not sure - the guns below the weather decks were "dummies" that plugged into holes in the hull, a la Airfix.) And, of course, it had those hideous, injection-molded sails cast integrally with the yards.
To each his/her own, but I'll pass on this one.
It's a shame that the American Revolution has excited so little interest among ship modelers - and those who have gotten enthusiastic about it have so often picked subjects that aren't well documented (e.g., the Bonhomme Richard and the brig Lexington). There's good documentation on a number of interesting ships from the Revolution - notably the American frigates Raleigh, Hancock, Randolph, and Virginia, and any number of important British ships.
Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.