Valu Ford & Chrysler has been a familiar name in West-Central Minnesota since February 2002. But our story really began in the late ' when two young college graduates had a dream of owning their own dealership.In 1989, while most young people were interested in MTV and big hair, Tom and Joel Krusemark had a very different agenda. They were interested in having a Ford franchise in their hometown of Elbow Lake, Minnesota and through a lot of hard work (and some strong nerves) they did just that.