To this day, Mike Lohner doesn’t quite know where his nephew found the money. Or the parts. Or why, really, he decided to rebuild a 1960s-era van from scratch, in the summer of 2021.
The why has always seemed less important than the how, with Caleb Lohner.
“There are those people that plan out their life,” Mike said. “And there are people that sort of go where life leads them.”
Life led a younger Caleb Lohner, before his sophomore year of hoops at BYU, to getting his hands on a vintage camper. He fixed up the engine.