They did not even look at it after you painted it, and all that work and money for nothing.
I am glad they passed your car. They would never pass my truck, it is 1997, it has a piece of PVC pipe for a gear shifter, the bed, and back bumper are rusted away so we put a wooden bed on it, and the bumper is made of thick black PVC pipe and the frame is cracked, but over here I can still drive it.