I'll take that bet.

At that point I just had to grin with all of the "hacks" I used to keep my poor old 80's beater running a couple years ago. Like changing alternators in the middle of the night in the pouring rain. Or bypassing damaged wiring and having it short out later causing my car to lose all electrical power on a dark twisty road. Or how the internal wiring in it was shot so to use the automatic windows I had to pull off the interior door panels and run a 12v source to the right pins. Or driving it back from the original owner with a piece of lexan in place of a windshield. (lexan is *awesome* stuff, BTW)

When I think about it like that a little software recompiling every now and then seems just about infinitely preferable (though doesn't make as good a story...).