Was based in LAX when Bryan (Brian?) McCook picked up GV's first Otter from Golden West (may not have been GV's first Otter). He wanted a drive into the Sierra Mountains just out of LAX, so he got the Otter Selling Agent to drive him! Unfortunately I was invited too. First stop was a Liquor Store - where else!
There was I sitting behind two guys swigging, naah - gulping, Nappa Valley red out of a flagon whilst driving along roads with a helluva drop down one and sometimes both sides. It was safer flying in the highlands in cloud!
I couldn't accept the offered ride in the Otter from Oakland (that's where he said he was originating) to Hawaii... would have been a good trip - I think.