Projects '63 Falcon, and '39 Chev gassers

Had fantastic weather yesterday, so decided it was time to install the new grille in my '39! Spent 90 minutes unbolting all the various bolts to remove the old grille, and began trying to bolt the new grille together. This should have been my warning things weren't right when I noticed it wasn't done like Chevy did it! Chevy put all their holes between grille bars so you can easily get to the screw heads between the bars. But whoever built this just randomly spaced the holes, and none of them were easy to access! I worked for another 90 minutes just trying to get the 6-7 screws and nuts together to mate the two halves.
Next I started to fit it into the opening and it was much too open to fit, so had to squeeze the halves until it finally fit into the car. One quick look told me this wasn't right. The grille seemed to be too flat on the grille bars, and made it more pointy than the original. I cut some cardboard to fit the curve of the old grille bars, and held it up to the new grille which confirmed the new grille bars were too flat shaped.
So I wasted about 4.5 hours messing with this POS grille, and began reassembling my old grille. Gave it a good cleaning, scuffed it, and shot more graphite metallic wheel paint on it to freshen up the looks. Found a broken ear on my electric fan so stopped and fixed that with some metal strap to replace the plastic junk. Then reinstalled the old grille and finished after 6 hours of wasted time.
Looks like I've got a piece of wall art to hang on the wall now to remind me to never buy reproduction junk again!