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I bought the hood from Restored, a company in japan which specializes in parts for old japanese cars https://restored.jp/parts/article/TE27レビン, it was like 800 dollars, and quite a lot more to bring it to my country. Sadly I didn't had a complete hood back then, it was very very rusted, and I just throw it away, I really didn't care bceause I knew of Restored that they could take care of the hood, I just had to save some months And we are on the second page of this post New years, and I’ve got a present for my birthday, an Ignition Models TE27, with the whole look of what I’m hoping for the car. I’m getting ready for more work on the car, so I need some parts because I’m taking a few days off again to work on the car. A few months comes by and I get the new floors and front valance from https://www.autopartscomplex.com/ they are reproductions but close enough. Do you remember the piece of rocker panel that I took in the previous post? Well I took that to a place nearby that does sheet metal work and was able to bend a whole piece from that shape. I also was investigating, and there is an inner and outer rocker panel piece, so I had both made. And in April 2019, I took some days off work, and the car was again in the garage, and ready to work on it. First job on the agenda, remove the center cross brace, in order to remove the floor. So with the spot cutter and some patience I started to find and cut one by one. I realized that maybe I was going to compromise the structure of the car, so I decided to weld some metal rods to tie the whole body Some more work, and the center brace was removed, and the body had some reinforcements. There were some nasty surprises under that brace, but I will take care of them You can see that the floor is quite clean, that's because the night before I used some dry ice on the old sound deadening and took it all out. Some parts of the floor were in amazing shape. With the center brace out, and the body with the reinforcements, I took a deep breath and did this… I cut the whole floor, and the rocker, I made sure that I got in the middle of the front under brace, and also with a lot of love cutting around the base of the A pillar of the car. And in no time I did a quick test fit of the new pieces. Next step is to make some cardboard templates for some small parts, I give that task to a friend Cutting those small parts And test fitting those parts with the new floor Another part that plays a role in this jigsaw is the front fender, so I bolted it to the car for a test fit It does look good And how about in the inside of the car? This picture doesn’t show all the work I went through in order to make this look good. But the fender bolts in a undercut on the rocker panel, and that undercut makes that the fender sit flush with the rocker, so I had to cut, bend, shape, weld, try, try again, weld some captive nuts, it took a while, but it came out good enough Also the shape of the side isn’t constant, it gets a little bigger in the back, so I had to make some magic again But trying to learn magic and all the trials and test fits meant that I had no more free time to keep working in the car, so I had to wrap it and leave. A few months later I had some free days so I returned to the car and welded some more pieces Well actually I welded the whole passenger floor because it was almost done, and painted it. And cover all the welds with some seam sealer All sealed from the top and from below And with that we are Mid-2019