Michigan Man’s Lost Wallet Found 150,000 Miles Later

When you lose your wallet or purse it can start a chain reaction of events no one wants to deal with.

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You look frantically in all the places where you think your wallet might have gone and after searching everywhere you have to face the unfortunate reality that it was lost forever.

A Michigan man who lost his wallet years ago recently got it back and the mystery of where it went has been solved

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Michigan Man's Lost Wallet Found Under Hood Of Car In Minnesota

Richard Guilford is a recently retired Michigan autoworker.

He lost his wallet around Christmas in 2014 while working on a car at a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan.

Richard believed that it must have  fallen out of his shirt pocket.

He searched dozens of cars on the assembly line, but Richard had to give up since he was working and on the clock.

He accepted the fact that he would most likely never see his wallet or the things inside of it ever again.

As fate would have it. over a decade later the missing wallet was found by a mechanic in a repair shop in Lake Crystal, Minnesota.

The wallet was discovered under the hood of a 2015 Ford Edge with 151,000 miles on it, wedged between the transmission and the air filter box.

The mechanic looked through the wallet and found his driver's license which he then searched for on Facebook.

Despite traveling around in the car for over 150,000 miles the wallet was still in good condition.

And inside his wallet was his driver's license, work ID, $15, and $275 worth of gift cards.

Richard plans to keep the wallet as a family heirloom to tell the story to his grandchildren.