A Ford Motor Company employee was reunited with a wallet he lost 10 years ago after a mechanic found it while servicing a car he built.
This charming story comes via Minnesota, where mechanic Chad Volk was replacing the cooling fan on a 2015 Ford Edge, when something that needed to snap in place, simply wouldn’t snap.
“I messed around a little bit and then pulled it back out and the wallet was sitting on a little ledge where it needed to snap down,” Volk told CBS News. “I pulled the wallet out and that’s what it was.”
Inside the brown trifold was a Michigan driver’s license, $15,00, a faded lottery ticket, $275 in Cabella’s gift cards, and a Ford employee ID, going to show that no matter how long you work under hoods and under chassis, you’ve never seen everything, Volk says.
Rewind the clock to Yuletide, 2014, and Richard Guilford was in a bind: he had to wear sweatpants to the Wayne County Ford plant. Lacking trouser pockets he had the wallet in his breast pocket, and while presumably stooping over a new red Edge, the wallet tumbled out.
Guilford wasn’t aware of it until later, when he got his buddies to go look in some of the cars. He guessed it was in, rather than inside, a Flex, not an Edge, an error that doomed the wallet to a long, dark slumber.
Shipped to and sold in Arizona, then resold in Minnesota, 151,000 miles later it arrived in Volk’s auto bay in Lake Crystal where the mechanic of several decades found it and immediately looked Guilford up on Facebook.
“‘Is this your wallet?’ First thing I said was ‘Did you find it in a car?!’” Guilford shared with a laugh.
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The now-retired “Big Red” as he was affectionately known, was overjoyed to have his wallet returned: for the story if not for the cash.
“It restores your faith in humanity that people will say, ‘Hey, you lost this, I found this, I’m going to get it back to you,’” Guilford said Thursday, adding in wonder how it survived the snow and rain in the Land of 1,000 Lakes, or the heat of a car’s transmission under the Arizona sun.
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Ford Motor Company spokesman Said Deep simply asked CBS “can you imagine the odds?”
Cabella’s even said they would honor the gift cards, which for part-time auctioneer Guilford means he can leave the relic of his past totally intact “in his china cabinet,” where he hopes his kids will pull it out and tell their grandkids about their ancestor’s wild, wandering wallet.
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