Houston Homecoming

Mazda RX-7 Seeks to Achieve Its “Final Form”

- Danny Nguyen

Since the age of 14, Cristian Tyrell has been fending for and finding himself. He lived back and forth between Houston, Texas, and Portland, Oregon, and skateboarding was his constant, four-wheeled passion until a buddy he skated with pulled up to the skatepark in a modified Honda Civic. “Hell yeah! A dope skater with a dope whip! I wanna be that guy!” That was the point where just being interested in cars turned into something that was going to change the course of his life.

Done with Portland and ready to make Houston home, Cristian bought a Kia Sephia for $300 and drove it the whole way with nothing more than a backpack stuffed with clothes and his skateboard. He settled in working at Whole Foods Market and found himself looking more in depth at cars.