Remembering when Ford (County) preferred Chevy

Citizen actors remember when TV ads brought county to the national forefront


PAXTON — Dana Sauer didn’t have to worry about fumbling his lines in the run-up to his and a variety of other Ford County citizen-actors’ 15 minutes of fame. “I didn’t have any speaking part,” the Paxton-area farmer said of his role in one of six Chevy truck commercials created in Ford County. Filmed in late 1989, the commercials were […]

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