A TOY cars enthusiast has amassed the world’s most valuable Hot Wheels collection – worth over $1million. Extreme collector Bruce Pascal received his first Hot Wheels car at the age of seven and has been collecting ever since. The commercial real estate agent from the USA’s East Coast currently owns over 3500 of the miniature toy cars, including 175 unique prototypes that were never released to the public. His collection includes one of the world’s rarest Hot Wheels, a bright pink VW Beach Bomb Rear-Loader worth $150,000.
Man – don’t you wish he’d let us play with those for a day? I promise we’ll be careful with them.
Shawn, I’m right there with you. It’d be great fun!
Ahh the memories! I had a big box chock full of that yellow-orange track. We used to hold drag races from the top of my headboard down the hall.
Oddly enough my fastest ever car was a Johnny Lightning, Topper’s competitor to the hot wheels, a golden Ferrari Berlinetta, Wonder where the heck it’s gotten to?
Probably gone in a yard sale decades ago.
I also had the Mongoose versus The Snake set…
It wa great seeing him on the floor playing with the cars.
The epitome of staying young.
Managing to keep that track all intact with all the connections smooth probably account for most of the value. 🙂
I was always a Matchbox kid. When I saved up enough, I would get a Corgi. I knew Hot Wheels were fast, but Matchbox were always better from an aesthetic point of view (although I didn’t know it at the time.)
A couple years ago my mom found all my old ’60s & ’70s Hot Wheels in the attic. I thought it might be a good way to make a few bucks on eBay. But when I got them and took a look at them they were all beat to hell. I guess I was a lot rougher on them than I remembered. Oh well, I got my money’s worth out of them.
I still have all of mine!
Ditto. Brrrum brrum. HONK.