LAKE CRYSTAL, MN— In a heart-warming story covered by KARE 11, while repairing a 2015 Ford Edge at his auto shop in Lake Crystal, Minnesota, mechanic Chad Volk stumbled upon an unexpected find: a leather wallet tucked beneath the vehicle’s air box, sitting on top of the transmission. Chad discovered a Ford Motor Company employee ID inside the wallet. Using Facebook, he tracked down the wallet’s owner, a retired Ford autoworker named Richard Guilford, who now lives in Michigan.

Richard immediately recognized the wallet and recalled losing it 11 years earlier while working a night shift at a Ford plant. He had been fixing electrical issues on Ford Edges that had just arrived from the Chicago assembly plant. That night, on a rare occasion, he happened to be carrying his wallet in his shirt pocket when he leaned over a car and the wallet slipped out. Despite searching the lot and narrowing down the cars he’d worked on, the wallet was never found—until now.