Spacer plate in front of leaf spring hanger

Don't look factory to me, but have any of you guys ever seen how the trans tunnel looks on some 4 speed A bodies? The factory cut some of the auto. humps out to weld in the 4 speed hump, it looked just as bad !

And I thought somebody hacked that up when the changed from a Inland to a Hurst. My 66 Dart is that way.