Well, I would. What I wouldn't like probably are the new anime series going on. I don't know if I am getting older, but the new series are shit in my opinion and the Japanese popculture is at it's worst.
Really, I am not getting turned on by drawn/animated girls in cat costumes with bouncing breasts... for example. Second thing I seriously hate is Japanese pop-music at which I have to tear my ears off like Piccolo.
So if I didn't knew about Dragon Ball, I don't know if I will be able to discover it trough anime.
But, I do love all those series from 70's-90's like Space Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock, Saint Seiya, Hokuto No Ken and Gundam and real robot genre.
I am just watching Patlabor and love it. Dragon Ball has the same quality to these shows. Appealing designs, easily memorable characters, clean and great looking action.
That's what got me hooked on before and probably will if I didn't knew. The 30 episodes long fights gave the tension I never saw before as most cartoons are based on episodic format of stories and villains,
and man, as the cards turned in favor of the heroes, the episode ends with cliffhanger and vice versa.
Naruto for me is the closest to Dragon in modern shonen, tough it is pretty much stretched out beyond my tollerance.
One Piece - I don't like the designs, I don't like story arc being 100 episodes long where 70's of episodes feels like filler or they are stretched out.
After 500 episodes, I forgot 80% of the encountered characters and after on and off train watching One Piece casually for few years, I completely quit during the Fishermen's Island arc (which was reinforced by that annoying anime-cliché princess).
So yes, I think that Dragon Ball is one of the best shows that came out of a Japan with legendary status like Gundam and I would watch it even a new without knowing it before.
PS: Yeah, I do think that some of the humour is rather embarassing and not funny nowadays (like Goku taking Bulma's pants off) but I still laugh on Roshi's and Vegeta's particular Chi-Chi no chi-chis and the classic Japanese humour of wordplays
Kaio's jokes in original are dead on.