We were lucky to catch up with TAXI GARAGE recently and have shared our conversation below.
TAXI, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?
Just because TAXI GARAGE started in literally the garage of one of our houses doesn’t mean that we didn’t want to make a big impact. From what started as a bi-weekly hobby riding the modified crazy carts, constantly getting asked “What are those? and “How can I get one” it only made sense for us to come together and launch a business.
The Taxi Garage team is led by a partnership between Nick Ward, Ryan Kaufman and Charlie Fallon. Having a combined now 40+ years in the automotive industry it comes naturally that we can’t touch anything without modifying it.
The success of our brand TAXI GARAGE we would have to say comes from our passion to make things better with quality upgrades.
Not just from manufacturing in-house parts, but to provide an overall customer experience to our clients who have become friends.
TAXI, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
As mentioned with our passion for these crazy carts and open door policy with RAZOR USA, taking our background experience in the automotive industry has led us to start this business based on the crazy cart platform. TAXI GARAGE LLC. is now 4+ years old and growing the brand name rapidly.
We’d love to hear the story of how you turned a side-hustle into a something much bigger.
Clients refer to our daily routine as a “Jobby” hobby turned job :)
We are happy to announce that we now offer a retail storefront in Sunrise, FL as a full-on electric ride-on repair center. Here we offer our custom crazy carts with more to come soon!
Each and every cart and part is inspected before shipping out. All the upgrades have gone through our R&N (Ryan and Nick) department before offering anything to the public. As with a growing company, we keep coming out with newer revised parts and streamlining the upgrades for our customers. In addition to our viral videos and upgrades, we provide “HOW TO” install videos on our YouTube to virtually assist customers. We are here to expand the crazy cart community and with our steady growth are excited to announce the world’s first FORMULA CRAZY CART league. In comparison to Formula Drift and Formula 1, Formula E, we want to expand this sporting event at an entry-level to spread this shared hobby amongst crazy carters worldwide. More can be seen on our street league website www.formulacc.com
How’d you meet your business partner?
All three of us owners have been involved with the automotive industry since we could reach the gas pedal. The US drift circuit run by Chris Jackson is where you could find us all the track with our “life-size crazy carts” aka our drift cars. Now that this adrenanline-driven hobby can get quite costly, we figured out a way to have just as much fun with the modifications we do to the crazy carts.
Ryan has been running his own fabrication shop for the last 15+ years making top-notch parts for pro-level race cars. He brings his mechanical engineering degree to the table with limitless potential.
Nick is the ultimate car guys encyclopedia where he has built 1,000HP+ performance cars, to managing an entire Lamborghini shop and race team, to selling exotic vehicles at Ferrari of Ft. Lauderdale.
If you want to talk cars, make sure to grab a pen and paper with this guy.
Charlie, having brought numerous automotive start-ups to market and seeing how these successful businesses came to be, decided it was time to join forces with these all-stars and build a brand together.
The team is fortunate to bring on Casey Murphy as the marketing guru to bring the company to top-level branding.
His eye to this niche market is exactly what the team was looking for and could not be more thankful.
The team is growing and if you think you have what it takes feel free to reach out us!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.taxi-garage.com / www.FormulaCC.com
- Instagram: @taxigarage_
- Facebook: TAXI GARAGE
- Youtube: youtube.com/taxigarage
- Other: FlickR Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/193641195@N07/albums TikTok: @taxigarage Street League: www.FormulaCC.com
Image Credits
Photos by @caseyxmurphy