Monday, September 15, 2008 --- 1:55 p.m.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- The old truck certainly isn't cherry -- but the payment was peachy. Cherry and apple, too. When Chris Seubert couldn't unload his 1972 Chevy pickup for cash, he came up with a sweet deal. He traded his truck for one homemade pie a month from Anne Gordon.

The deal lasted two years. Gordon recently made her last "pie-ment," a piping hot peach pie with a "24" baked in the middle. Gordon tells a Eugene, Oregon, paper (Register-Guard) her pie deals didn't end with the truck. She says she also traded a pie for a discount tune-up at a local repair shop.

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