Carolina Fun Machines. Inc.

Specialties

Sales and Service of Chinese Scooters.

Sales and Service of Hyosung Motorcycles.

History

Established in 2008.

The idea for Carolina Fun Machines started back in 2007 when Linda, a high school French teacher, told Tim that she wanted a scooter to drive back and forth to school. So they went out and visited a number of the local scooter dealers and looked into what was available on the internet.

They found that the local dealers that actually had service and parts for the scooters they sold were adding $ 600.00 to $ 800.00 on top of the scooter price for documentation, freight and assembly fees. They also visited a number of hardware stores, used car dealers and tire dealers that were selling the low quality scooters but they didn’t stock parts or have qualified service people on staff to work on them when something went wrong.

In researching the internet sellers they read about all the horror stories regarding the quality of the scooters they were selling and when something went wrong there was no support to help the people figure out what was wrong and when they did it would take weeks

Meet the Business Owner

Timothy J.

Business Owner

Tim was one of those kids that drove his parents absolutely crazy. They would come home and find that he had taken his mothers iron and toaster apart because he wanted to know how they worked. As he got older he then turned his attention to his dad’s car. At the age of 16 he went to work at a marina where he learned how to work on outboard motors. In high school he was president of his automotive club along with taking a correspondence course on diesel and gasoline engine repair. In 1970, after graduating from high school, he enlisted in the USAF where he worked on fighter jets and B52 bombers.

After graduating from college with a degree in Applied Science, Computer Technology, he took a sales position with IBM. In 2007, after 36 years in the computer industry, he decided to retire and relax a little. Being very active for his age his wife Linda told him to go do something that would be fun and then mentioned that she wanted a scooter to drive back and forth to school.