“Isn’t there a famous expression: ‘The person who dies with the most toys wins’? I think I’m a leading candidate for that right now.” So says Bruce Pascal, a die-hard collector of Hot Wheels, who owns ...

WASHINGTON — When he was 7 years old, Bruce Pascal’s Matchbox cars weren’t doing it for him. “They came in a box, so you couldn’t see the car unless you opened it up. They didn’t have great colors or ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Floor-to-ceiling walls full of Hot Wheels toy cars line a 4,000 square-foot facility, housing one of the most valuable collections of its kind in the world. By day, Bruce Pascal is ...

Friends and strangers used to laugh – and probably still do – at Bruce Pascal’s hobby of collecting Hot Wheels cars, but even after all these years, he’s still laughing the hardest. The centerpiece of ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. - It’s been more than half a century since Mattel created its Hot Wheels franchise, and for one super-collector in Gaithersburg, Maryland the fascination with the toys started ...

As a boy, Bruce Pascal reveled in testing the limits of his Hot Wheels. He might squeeze a firecracker into one of the miniature metal cars and set it off, or flatten one with a hammer to see whether ...

We’re all probably Hot Wheels fans, but we have all been outdone by Bruce Pascal, an American diecast diehard whose toy collection exceeds $1-million. Recently profiled on Barcroft, Pascal admitted he ...

(CNN) — 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 ...