I have had Fallout 2 for the longest time, but just recently I picked it up again, and played a lot.
But one thing that has been particularly bothering me is that, my highwayman has seemingly just disappeared. I actually loaded up an old save, and my highwayman was not in my current location or MANY others.
I actually made another save just to search the wasteland and not lose any game time or anything. And no, I already did the whole T-ray thing if your going to say that. Anybody have an answer? :brokencomputer:
Bugs are a part of the fallout experience I'm afraid. It could have just disipeared.
Something similar did happen to me once - the car boot and car became detached and I lost the car, but the boot would load up in a strange place on every single map (which kinda worked out as an ad've advantage, go downstairs, your boots there too).
My suggestion would be if you havent already, download and install Killap's unofficial patch (not the restoration mod... at least not yet, once you've beaten the game at least once sure) as it squashes things like this.