When I was a boy my mother's boss had a 356C that was immaculate (it was new) and I remember thinking, "...that's a pretty nice car for an older man"
I'm a highschool Senior in 1972 and I see a new Silver '72S in the window of a little "foreign car dealership." I literally had my nose pressed against the window thinking, "Man, that so nice. I'll NEVER be able to afford a car like that!"
Summer of '76 I am in Geneva, Switzerland the summer before my last semester in college. I see this then new '76 in Light Yellow slowly roll down the main drag and think, "...as soon as I graduate I am buying one of those, I don't care what I have to do."
30 years later I bought that '76 in light yellow!