Production of the Ford Edge ended at the Oakville Assembly plant in Canada more than one year ago, after over two million units of that crossover were built between 2007 and 2024. The Edge name lives on in China as the Edge L, but otherwise, the crossover that many came to know and love has been discontinued in North America. The official Ford Edge site was turned into a farewell page this past May, officially sending it off into the sunset. However, one of those Ford Edge crossovers has been hiding something for quite a few years now that was just discovered.
According to KARE11 News, the owner of an auto repair shop in Lake Crystal, Minnesota – Chad Volk – recently found a leather wallet in a 2015 Ford Edge he was working on, which was a bit of a puzzling discovery. Volk was replacing the cooling fans in that crossover when he removed the vehicle’s air box, which is when he made that interesting discovery. The air box wouldn’t quite go back in place like it should, at which point Volk noticed that there was a wallet sitting on top of the transmission.
As one would expect, Volk was a bit surprised by his discovery, and became even more intrigued when he looked inside and found a Ford employee ID inside for a retired worker named Richard Guilford. Volk proceeded to find Guilford on Facebook and messaged him, and amazingly enough, the assembly line worker remembered the exact day he lost his wallet while fixing electrical issues in Ford Edge models that had been shipped to his facility from the Chicago Assembly plant.
“I never wore sweatpants to work, but I did that day,” Guilford said. “And I had my wallet in my shirt pocket.” When he leaned over the vehicles he was repairing, Guilford’s wallet fell out at some point, and despite receiving help from several other employees searching for it, the wallet was never found. “You know, there was 2,000 cars out there,” he said, “and we couldn’t find it.” The wallet sat under the air box as the Ford Edge racked up 150,000 miles over the ensuing decade or so, filled with some gift cards and $15 in cash – but now, it has finally been returned to its owner, with everything intact.
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Finding a wallet is better than in about 1989 with the Mercury Tracer. They were built in Mexico, and a group of drug smugglers would go to the train cars and put drugs in the door panels. Then when they would get to the USA, they would try to find that car and take the drugs out before arriving to a dealer.
I worked at a dealer at that time, and we would received most Tracers with door panels removed, which was done usually by the Drug Enforcement Group, and they left them off to left the next person that it was cleared.