I'm a bit younger than you guys, so actually I only new the tail end of the transformer cartoon days, and you had to wake up really really early to see it before they finally took it off air.

Nevertheless, my brothers and I had this ratty and beaten up transformer booklet all about the different transformers all in Japanese and I just loved it. Naturally I was drawn to aircraft-transforming transformers.
So, I guess the only transformer character I liked was Starscream.