by Chase Wilson ‘17

Throughout the school parking lot, one finds an unusual number of luxury SUVs, muscle cars, souped-up trucks, and sports cars. But, occasionally a Nissan GTR will show itself, or a turbocharged white Mustang 5.0L will cruise around the traffic circle. A lucky student might catch a glimpse of a red Lamborghini Aventador or a matte black Stingray Corvette. Behind the wheel of all of these cars is one student. Senior Matt Rello owns nine cars with a worth totaling nearly $1 million.

“I’ve loved cars before I could even drive. At 16, I had three cars already. I couldn’t drive them obviously, but I would wax them every day. My favorite thing to do was just look at them,” said Rello.

All of his vehicles were bought by his parents. His mother, Heather, justifies these purchases through the claim that more expensive cars have very advanced safety measures in them. His father, Stephan, bought him his first car for graduating middle school with, as he puts it, “three consecutive times on the Honor Roll.”

Many of the students at Sherwood would feel blessed to have even one car to drive or the opportunity to obtain a driver’s license, but Rello believes that since he does so well in school, his parents have a moral obligation to buy him gifts. He brags that he has taken a total of three Advanced Placement classes over his high school career. He has earned a B in AP NSL and a B in AP Psychology. Currently, he is enrolled in AP Statistics and looking to turn his current C into an A.

Rello and his parents have agreed to continue this plan through his years in college and through his first job until he has moved far enough up the ladder at his father’s successful home-building firm, at which point they will stop buying him cars. At that point in his life, Stephan Rello said that his son will be more suited for a yacht of some kind for every accomplishment. In the near future, his parents have agreed to buy him a Bugatti Veyron if he attends school for 100 days in a row to finish out his high school career. “It’s been a long, hard, uphill battle, but I’m trying really hard to keep the streak going,” said Rello. However, with six days to go he has been struggling. He’s often seen looking out of classroom windows to the parking lot, undoubtedly trying to plot the fastest route to whatever car he chose to drive that day.