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Voila: new floors. After securely welding the floor pans in place, Jared used the hand grinder with a flat disc to tidy things up a bit.

"The goal in welding is to try to make your weld as pretty as possible," he says. "But there are those welds in those tight-to-reach corners that don't look so great. So, yeah, I went around with my hand grinder and cleaned up what needed to be cleaned up on both sides."

He then primed both the inside and outside surfaces. Finally, he applied a rubberized undercoat, which was stock, to the car's undercarriage.

Jared loves to restore a car from the ground up like this. It's like an archaeological dig--and you get to know the car in a way you couldn't otherwise. "You find all the old fossilized French fries under the front seat," he says, "or, you know, quarters from 1935. Just all the old stuff--you really get to know every nook and cranny."