A decade-old mystery was remarkably solved.
A retired Michigan autoworker looked at a Facebook message after midnight from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet years ago?
“If so,” a Minnesota man wrote, “it was in the engine bay of a car.”
Richard Guilford couldn’t believe what he was reading on his phone — a decade-old mystery was remarkably solved.
Guilford’s tri-fold leather wallet — stuffed with $15, a driver’s license, work ID, gift cards worth $275 and lottery tickets — had turned up under the hood of a car in a repair shop in Lake Crystal, Minnesota.
A Christmas gift from Guilford’s sons was suddenly a family treasure again. “Big Red,” as he was affectionately known at Ford Motor, was in awe.
“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.
The wallet was discovered in June by mechanic Chad Volk, sandwiched between the transmission and the air filter box of a 2015 Ford Edge with 151,000 miles on it.
“Crazy,” Volk said.
The filter box wouldn’t snap in place after a repair, he said, “so 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.
