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Richard Guilford lost his wallet while working on a Ford Edge in 2014.

The wallet was found 11 years later by a mechanic in Minnesota, lodged in the car's engine compartment.

The wallet traveled 151,000 miles before being discovered.

The mechanic returned the wallet to Guilford, who had recently retired.

Richard Guilford remembers Christmas 2014 like it was yesterday because it was when the now-retired Ford Motor Co. assembly plant worker lost his wallet on the job and grew to accept he wouldn't see it again.

And he didn't — at least not for more than a decade.

Guilford, 56, lives in Petersburg, Michigan, about five miles south of Dundee. He retired from Ford in January 2024, but in 2014, he was repairing the electrical systems of vehicles at Michigan Assembly Pl

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