It's a pretty common practice to strip beater cars of their paint and leave them next to the ocean and let it claim them one way or another. It's totally illegal but happens enough idiot tourists take pictures of themselves in em.
It looks ground off to me, they probably didn't touch the front because it wasn't smooth or easy to sand.
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It looks ground off to me, they probably didn't touch the front because it wasn't smooth or easy to sand.