Cool, thanks. That's pretty much how I've learned as well -- grew up wrenching on my older brother's series of old Brit sportscars, then went through a bunch of my own motorcycles, Fiat 850 and then 124 Spiders, rebuilt a '59 Corvette I bought for $600 (those were the days), butchered a few big-block Chevy motors (humbling but instructive), did a 180 and spent years tinkering with air-cooled VWs, learned fuel injection by owning a Renault nobody wanted to work on, then started "fixing up" a derelict old Volvo... been at it ever since.

Yes, I am that Phil. VClassics pretty much fell apart as any sort of organization, due to life intruding on pretty much everyone who was associated with it, not just me. Now my own over-the-top projects are under control (yes, the MPPE is finally tuned), I'm floating around on an island in the Puget Sound, wrenching on old Volvos and Brit sportscars for income, and giving some thought to what to do with the webzine, which I very much do want to revive in some form. No lack of tales to tell, for sure.

Meanwhile, I'll be writing a regular column and some additional articles for Rolling starting with the next issue.