So a bit of fun really.
As a small child a guy in my street had a certain car that I thought …wow when I’m older I want one of those !
Some years older and presumably wiser I then thought, oh my ? Really ?
So here it is folks …
The mighty Fiat Strada 
I still think the Strada was quite cool. Particularly the 130TC.
My guilty car crush as a kid was probably the Renault Fuego. Again, looking back now, while it wasn’t an amazing car dynamically, it did look pretty good compared to a lot of its early 80s counterparts. Also the first car in the world to have remote central locking apparently.
Matra Simca Bagheera
Guy over the road had one.
I thought it was some kind of supercar.
Then I found out later in life it had an 1100cc engine and just 84hp
The three front seats was novel and it did look nice.
I been in one of these many times as my friend had several.
I always recall the ignition key was on the ‘wrong side’ of steering column (as in left) 
There were two cars I wanted to own as a kid, one fits this topic.
The mighty Mk4 Golf GTI in lime green.
I cannot tell you why I liked it so much, I think it was because of the colour. I had a 1/43 scale model of it which I still vividly remember playing the most with.
Thing is I still like it 
The CarWizard YouTube channel recently did a video going over a customers car:
I’d not seen or heard of the Fuego before, personally I feel that for all the styling, the front-on view is somewhat plain and lacking compared to the rest 
Gordini pocket rocket.
I wanted
one of these when I was 14. I still do.
Always wanted aTriumph TR5.
Couldn’t afford it so got a Triumph Herald soft top.
Great little car and so easy to work on.
NMP
When I was just out of Nappies I was given a Dinky 253 Daimler DC27 Ambulance which I drove hundreds and thousands of miles on my hands and knees.
I was the irritating nee naw kid at parties, no matter what else was going on I was in the corner on my own going nee naw nee naw ad nauseum with my little Daimler !
I guess that might be part of the reason why I did not think twice about becoming a organ transplant response driver for the last eight years of my working life.
Don’t have a photo but being fairly sensible, either a Daimler SP250 (Dart) like my mother had or a Rover SD1 Vitesse V8 please.
An E-Type Jaguar was my dream car as a kid - still is, if I’m to be honest - and I’m 70 years old now ! But being an avid watcher of Bangers & Cash, and noticing the prices that E-Types get nowadays - still a dream !
The ‘Oh Dear’ bit ? Well, my first actual car was an Austin A40 (all I could afford on an apprentice mechanics wages at 17), but I still have fond memories of the good times I had in it !!!
Ah , but would a Daimler ambulance from the early Fifties have gone ‘Nee Naw’? Surely the two tone siren was a creature of the frivolous Sixties and the Daimler would announce its stately progress with a ‘brrrrng’ from a brightly polished brass bell?
When I got it I was in Germany where the ambulances had sirens, though not the nee naw we know now, rather than bells, by the time I got to the UK sirens were starting to be used on emergency vehicles.
Nice. I got half-way there with a mk1 GT. Loved that car.
My father had one of those brand new as a company car in about 1966. It was a very dark green colour. My memories of it unfortunately was always being car sick in it.
For one moment I thought it was one of those crappy, rusty, do not last long, Hillman Imp’s - I had one! 
