What was he (she?) thinking?

So I took a good look at this car.  It has an actual 4 bbl carb, but it's mounted to a flat plate under the hood.  He even took the trouble to run a fuel line to the carb.  Also, there's a chrome plated diff cover attached (glued?  duct taped?) to the rear suspension.

I really don't understand people.

Ok, I saw the car again and took a picture of the differential cover.  Here it is.