A Minnesota mechanic working on a 2015 Ford Edge discovered a wallet under the hood that a Michigan Ford assembly plant worker lost 11 years earlier.

Chad Volk, who runs LC Car Care in Lake Crystal, Minnesota, was under the hood replacing the vehicle’s cooling fans and had pulled out the airbox when he made the discovery, he told KARE 11.

When the airbox would not fit when he attempted to put it back into place, Volk had to investigate the problem.

“And that’s where the wallet was,” Volk told KARE 11.

The Ford vehicle then traveled to a dealership in Arizona before heading to Lake Crystal, where the wallet was found by Volk after more than 150,000 miles on the road.

After exchanging Facebook messages, Volk mailed the wallet to Guilford’s home in Petersburg, Michigan.

“And there’s nothing wrong with the money at all,” said Guilford, who found $15 cash in the wallet.

“It’s well-traveled currency,” he added.

In addition to the cash and long-expired lottery tickets, the wallet contained $250 in Cabela’s gift cards he had planned to use 11 years ago to buy Christmas gifts for his kids.

Mechanic Chad Volk was under the hood replacing the vehicle’s cooling fans when he found the wallet. (AP)

Guilford said he checked with Cabela’s and was told the gift cards could still be used.

The two men spoke in a video chat just days after the wallet was found.

“I would have never, ever, figured in a million years that would still be there,” Guilford told Volk, according to KARE 11.

Chad replied that he was “going to have to start digging through cars more often, I guess, in the engine bays, and see if I can find something.”