• Home
  • About
  • Bruce Pascal
    • Bruce Pascal Collection
    • Bruce Pascal Home Office
    • Bruce Pascal Press
  • Mattel Designers & Artists
    • Otto Kuhni >
      • Artwork >
        • Hot Wheels Related
        • Automobiles
        • Aviation
        • Nautical
        • Trains
        • Other
      • Biography
      • Interview
    • Harry Bradley
    • Elliot Handler
    • Other Designers & Artists >
      • Bruce Baur
      • Tom Daniels
      • J. De Gelder
      • M. Fraer
      • Ira Gilford
      • Bob Lovejoy
      • Errol McCarthy
      • Howard Rees
      • Phil Riehlman
      • Gary Saffer
      • Paul Tam
      • Larry Wood
  • Contact
HOT WHEELS ONLINE
  • Home
  • About
  • Bruce Pascal
    • Bruce Pascal Collection
    • Bruce Pascal Home Office
    • Bruce Pascal Press
  • Mattel Designers & Artists
    • Otto Kuhni >
      • Artwork >
        • Hot Wheels Related
        • Automobiles
        • Aviation
        • Nautical
        • Trains
        • Other
      • Biography
      • Interview
    • Harry Bradley
    • Elliot Handler
    • Other Designers & Artists >
      • Bruce Baur
      • Tom Daniels
      • J. De Gelder
      • M. Fraer
      • Ira Gilford
      • Bob Lovejoy
      • Errol McCarthy
      • Howard Rees
      • Phil Riehlman
      • Gary Saffer
      • Paul Tam
      • Larry Wood
  • Contact

Bruce Pascal Hot Wheels Press

CNN:  This might be the most valuable Hot Wheels car in the world

12/24/2020

1 Comment

 
Pink Beach Bomb
by Peter Valdes-Dapena

You can buy most Hot Wheels cars for about a dollar at Target, Wal-Mart or pretty much any local drugstore. But for Bruce Pascal, a nearly lifelong obsession with the tiny cars has turned into a collection of mind-boggling value.

Pascal, a Washington DC-area commercial real estate executive, is the owner of what is believed to be the most valuable Hot Wheels car in the world: a 1969 version of the "Beach Bomb" Volkswagen bus estimated to be worth as much as $150,000.

Collectibles experts say the appraisal of the tiny car is entirely believable based on its extreme rarity and its nearly perfect condition....more.
1 Comment

Volkswagon:  #TBT: The Volkswagen 'Beach Bomb,' the world's most valuable Hot Wheel

12/3/2020

0 Comments

 
Volkswagon
Bruce Pascal was seven years old when Hot Wheels first hit stores in 1968.

“It’s hard to explain the craze today, but Hot Wheels was huge. All of my friends were saving up to buy all the Hot Wheels they could,” he said. Hot Wheels soon became the number one toy for boys, and Pascal spent his childhood racing and collecting the die-cast cars.

When he grew up, Pascal put his Hot Wheels in a cigar box at his mother’s house, where they collected dust for almost 30 years. His passion for classic cars continued into adulthood, but his Hot Wheels collection remained out-of-sight until he rediscovered it in 1999...read more.
0 Comments

The Hustle:  The collectors who spend thousands on rare Hot Wheels

8/1/2020

1 Comment

 
By day, Bruce Pascal is a successful commercial real estate executive who brokers multimillion-dollar deals in the nation’s capital.

By night, he buys $5k Hot Wheels cars on eBay.

The 59 year old owns what is considered the world’s most valuable Hot Wheels collection, a staggering array of 7k rare toy cars that are collectively insured for $1.5m. Many are prototypes that were acquired from former Mattel employees, including a pink 1969 Rear-Loading Beach Bomb valued at ~$150k.

Read the full article.

The Hustle
1 Comment

Chevy New Roads Magazine:  How Chevy Invented Hot Wheels

6/18/2020

0 Comments

 
Hot Wheels® might be the best-selling toy brand of all time, with a total production of more than 6 billion cars since the brand’s founding in 1968. That doesn’t just amount to 16.5 tiny cars produced every second; it’s more cars than have been sold by the Big Three since the dawn of the auto industry. But while the history of the brand received generous coverage during its 50th anniversary in 2018, its direct and ongoing connection to Chevrolet cannot be overstated.

Nowhere is that relationship more clear than in the $1.5 million, 7000-piece collection of Hot Wheels cars and ephemera owned by Washington, D.C.–area real estate broker Bruce Pascal. Pascal’s hoard contains not only the most valuable Hot Wheels car in existence, a pink prototype VW Bus valued at up to $150,000, but also a treasure trove of bowtie tie-ins.

Read the full article.
Chevy
0 Comments

Montgomery County Council - Bruce Pascal:  Hot Wheels Museum

3/14/2019

0 Comments

 
Maryland's Montgomery County Council interviewed Bruce Pascal, a Montgomery County resident, who has the world's most expensive Hot Wheels collection.
0 Comments

Bethesda Magazine:  Potomac Man Planning Private Museum for His ‘Amazing’ Toy Cars (February 2019)

2/18/2019

0 Comments

 
Bethesda Magazine featured Bruce Pascal's collection and Hot Wheels Museum in a February 2019 article.  See the article, "Potomac Man Planning Private Museum for His 'Amazing' Toy Cars."
Picture
0 Comments

WTOP:  Md. man turns childhood Hot Wheels passion into world’s priciest collection (February 2019)

2/11/2019

0 Comments

 
The toy cars were introduced in 1968. Now, a Montgomery County man's Hot Wheels toy car collection is estimated to be worth $1.5 million.  Read the full article about Bruce Pascal's collection on WTOP.

0 Comments

Maryland Public Television:  Bruce Pascal's Hot Wheels Collection

2/1/2019

0 Comments

 
John Davis from Chesapeake Collectives interviewed Bruce Pascal on Maryland Public Television while showcasing Pascal's collection.  Watch the interview.
Maryland Public Television
0 Comments

Televista:  Mexican Hot Wheels Convention (December 2018)

12/11/2018

0 Comments

 
Bruce Pascal is interviewed on Televista during the Mexican Hot Wheels Convention.
0 Comments

Road and Track (November 2018)

11/10/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Bruce Pascal's collection is featured in the Road and Track article, "Inside the World's Most Valuable Hot Wheels Collection" (November 2018) by Brett Berk.
0 Comments
<<Previous

    Archives

    December 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    March 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    December 2017
    November 2016
    December 2015
    April 2015
    October 2013

    RSS Feed

About

About Bruce
Contact Bruce
Sell Your Hot Wheels

Bruce Pascal

Hot Wheels Collection
Hot Wheels Home Office

Mattel Designers & Artists

Otto Kuhni
Harry Bradley
Ira Gilford
Howard Rees
Larry Wood
Bob Lovejoy
Phil Riehlman
Gary Saffer
Paul Tam
J. De Gelder
M. Fraer
Tom Daniels
Bruce Baur
Elliot Handler
Errol McCarthy
© COPYRIGHT 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • About
  • Bruce Pascal
    • Bruce Pascal Collection
    • Bruce Pascal Home Office
    • Bruce Pascal Press
  • Mattel Designers & Artists
    • Otto Kuhni >
      • Artwork >
        • Hot Wheels Related
        • Automobiles
        • Aviation
        • Nautical
        • Trains
        • Other
      • Biography
      • Interview
    • Harry Bradley
    • Elliot Handler
    • Other Designers & Artists >
      • Bruce Baur
      • Tom Daniels
      • J. De Gelder
      • M. Fraer
      • Ira Gilford
      • Bob Lovejoy
      • Errol McCarthy
      • Howard Rees
      • Phil Riehlman
      • Gary Saffer
      • Paul Tam
      • Larry Wood
  • Contact