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Minnesota Mechanic Returns Autoworker's Decade-Old Wallet Found Under Ford Edge Hood
The wallet, lost in 2014, was found intact with $15 cash and $275 in gift cards after the car traveled 151,000 miles, highlighting a rare preservation during extensive use.
- On Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, mechanic Chad Volk found Richard Guilford’s wallet under a 2015 Ford Edge with 151,000 miles in Lake Crystal, Minnesota.
- At a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan, around Christmas 2014, Guilford lost his tri-fold leather wallet while assembling cars.
- Surprisingly, Guilford said, `Some things in it were hot and crisp, think of how hot that car got,` while the wallet held $15, a driver’s license, work ID, gift cards worth $275 and lottery tickets.
- In response, Cabela’s said the $250 in gift cards remain valid and offered to give him new cards anyway, Volk said he messaged a photo of the wallet including the driver’s license.
- For his family, Guilford said the recovery restored his faith in humanity, and he plans to keep the wallet in his china cabinet as a keepsake for his children and great-grandkids.
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