You sound like you'll fit right in, many of us ..."experienced" individuals here.
There's a great deal of good info in the various "stickies" and search works well these days.
You can also search the STF (or most other websites) using Google site search
Example:
(what you want to search for, but not in parenthesis) site:shoptalkforums.com
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
I only recently got m'self a VW bus.. but when i was learning to drive it was on a golf 1300.. never realised how much i liked vw until my previous car broke & i borrowed my dads Chico..
Greetings from Cape Town (which is now safely settled with monsoon weather)..
Welcome to the forum Zafgak. Your just a young man in prime of life. I'm 72 and still enjoy driving my Ghia which I imported from Japan to UK 8 years ago . Took me just over 4 years to refurbish and now I'm out driving it when ever the wife lets me.
Robert