in 1965, Bernice Wyszynski saw a brand-new Pontiac Tempest advertised for "1,395 bananas" by Stephen Pontiac Cadillac, Bristol CT ... by some idiot that wasn't aware what false advertising was... and she got the bananas, and the State Commissioner for Consumer Affairs, and presto! One fourteen hundred dollar car for 280 dollars of bananas!

Bernice Wyszynski died in 2003, and the banana incident made it into her obituary

https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/car_sold_for_1395_bananas