Why?

[MiraclePieCo]

Working on these old trucks, you typically find lots of evidence of previous owners' repair efforts, many done less than professionally. Others done in what had to be a state of total inebriation. Take my grille for example: why would anyone use a torch to remove bolts, which actually just come out easily with a wrench, thus ruining about half the mounting holes? And why would someone not mask off the chrome grille bars when painting the back of the grille instead of just blasting over-spray all over the chrome?

And I can't imagine what was going on in anyone's mind when they did this customization on my front splash apron; I don't even know how you could accomplish such a feat: