I had an inspector that was by the book. The local cop who signed my TR-54 didn’t really care, she just checked all the boxes. My inspector called me before and asked if I actually had the bumpers, wipers, glass windshield and bottle installed. I of course didn’t. He just wanted me to call him when I got it all installed. I made a windshield template and had a local glass guy cut me safety glass to that shape. I then made some make shift brackets to “install” the windshield. I got a manual wiper and a bottle. I zipped tied the bottle and made it look like it was installed. I was lucky enough to borrow a set of bumpers. The inspector only looked at the the car for about 3 minutes. He checked to see if I had DOT tires and that was about it. He slapped the vin on and left. Was only at my house for about 5 minutes. One he left, I took everything off.