ADA: Ask Doc Anything!

[Rusty Brass]

Any chance you could repost all of the things no one's going to want?

[Magmoormaster]

I got one for ya.

In a video from last year, Bacci is talking with Sergei Levkov about the Fastback autococker. He basically says that the design was his, that he did all the milling, and shipped the guns to you for assembly and sales. Is that true? I was always under the impression that since they were called "Doc Nickel Fastbacks," that you designed, machined, and sold them.

[DocsMachine]

Found your email, I'll type you up a reply this evening and we can go from there.

-Whoops, no, I don't. That email is the other stock guy. Please send me a refresher/reminder email and then we can go from there.

Sorry about that.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

I wanna know why we park in in driveways and drive on parkways?

-Easy. The main thing to remember is both terms actually predate the car. A "drive" way was basically a short private road giving access to a property off a public road- 'drive' being a term far older than we know it today. As in drive a herd of cattle across the state to the new ranch. The original meaning had a lot more to do with the access a wagon had past the house and towards the barn out back, and the term naturally evolved to include the short bit from the house to the garage.

And a "park" way was just as it sounds- a road through a park, basically meant to be a scenic route. That, too, evolved from the old horse-and-carriage days, with the original term basically meaning a wide road through a scenic area. It later evolved to include wide highways (multi-lanes, etc.) that were also somewhat scenic- think Route 66.

What I still haven't figured out is why there are interstate highways on Hawaii*.

Doc.

(Actually, that, too is easy: An "interstate" is a specification, the road is built to interstate standards, not that it's actually connected to multiple states.)

[DocsMachine]

I was the raw P-stock, raw Tanto, howie glass guy! And now that I own a cocker, maybe even more.

-Oh, right. That guy.



I thought I got back to you on that, but then, some days I'm lucky to remember pants. I have the raw P-stock, but I'm out of raw Tantos. I can sure send you an annoed one, or if you're not in too much of a hurry, I have a new batch of them inbound, although probably not for another two to six weeks.

For those of you interested, I'll also have some of the new, as-yet-unannounced 12" Tanto XLs, that take the XL inserts. Shhhh!

No hard ETA, but we are working on them.

Found your email, I'll type you up a reply this evening and we can go from there.

Doc.