How can they be antiques already?

To the editor:
With wide eyed wonder as he sat on my lap, while I opened one of my Christmas presents, my 6-year-old grandson gazed at the picture on the box.
The photo showed a Flying Fortress Bomber, as it flew through a sky full of flak and other aircraft. The model of the aircraft in the box is a project that someday we will put together, a great rainy day project. He has bugged me to get him a similar model, ever since.
The other day, after he had cut himself on a broken window, bad enough to need several stitches in his arm, I stopped by a hobby shop on the way home from work, to get him a similar model, that would be easier to assemble for him.
As I walked down the model aisle, a common thread began to emerge. They had only three models of heavy trucks, all that I have driven. All three were part of what the model company had labeled as their “HistoricTruck Series.”
I then proceeded down to the US Navy Ship series. Sure enough, they had two modern era U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier models in stock. One was the ship I served on, and have been around the world three times while aboard. The model maker had the box labeled as “Historic Naval Warship Series.”
I quickly found a model that matched his skill set, of a bomber similar to the one I have yet to put together, and got out of the store before I even began to look at the car models.
If three trucks and a ship I have been in and on have historic significance, I can just imagine that my first cars and trucks must be closer to being “antiques.” I got out of the store while the getting was good.
Sincerely,
James D. Fulks III
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