Bunker Spreckels Wildest Stories | Art Brewer recounts an insane near-death trip to South Africa

 

A lot has been said about the new Bunker Spreckels movie Bunker77 that is now out. He is possibly the most eccentric surfer of all time mostly because his money allowed for it. Bunker burnt out forever at the tender age of 27, yet his story lives on.

After an initial disagreement photographer Art Brewer set off to South Africa with Bunker back in the day and it’s a wild trip he will never forget. Bunker went nuts and Art barely escaped with his life. Guns, drugs, girls, gangs, knife fights…. it’s all in there.

 

Bunker ends up getting more fucked up and terrorising the town. He gets in one of the Mercedes looking for Ellie. There was this California surfer from Santa Barbara there, Robbie Robinson I believe, and he was driving his van with his girlfriend. Bunker thought she was Ellie so he proceeds to drive the van off the road. Everyone was alright, but Bunker totalled his Mercedes, so he goes back and gets the other one. He got three flat tires and destroyed the motor. I locked the door to my room and went to bed.

 

Click over to STAB MAGAZINE for all of Art Brewer’s account of escaping South Africa with his life after  a Bunker Spreckels trip.

 

 

 

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