Peter,
Welcome to the forum.
Wealth of information on here. Not too many gotchas out of the gate with the SS, with the exception of Neutral being finicky the first few hundred miles. My suggestion is to get a nice cup of coffee tomorrow morning while its raining and go through the main section and see what topics are popular.
BTW....where in NJ are you? I got my White SS S from Cross Country in Metutchen.