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Greg and his brother are installing token machines for free vacuums.  When the customer purchases an automatic carwash they get a token.

I drove by the Morgan Road Car Wash today.  Greg purchased it a couple days ago.  They have put in another automatic and gone up on there self-serve prices from $2.00 to $2.50!  So since December 10th, 2005 they have only gone up $.50….. inflation definately has not hit the self-serve market!

If you are interested, the wash has 2 Jim Coleman Water Wizards: 1 is the original while the other is a new 2.0 non-profiling.  It has 2 Hamilton entry units and also a Jim Coleman Space Saver pumping unit for the self-serve bays.

Bubbles Galore Car Wash & Detailing

Do you want to have a web presence for your self serve carwash?  No?  Neither do I.  But this website would be a good example if you did! Check it out at:  http://bubblesgalorecarwash.com/

Previous post:  http://cwguy.com/?p=2681

This carwash has the same self serve equipment that my Hueytown carwash used to have (Clean Concepts).  His equipment had a sticker for Magriff Inc of Birmingham Alabama 205-879-7234 on the self serve equipment.  The phone number now is someones personal number.

Dave from House of Wax sent in some pictures of his carwash and detail shop.  All his equipment is Superior and his automatic is a Side-Trac.  Also check out his web site at:  www.carwashanddetailing.us

Send in pictures of your car wash!

This is from my trip back from the ICA meeting in April.  This was down the street from this wash.

Bay setup

Vacuum setup

Hamilton changer and vending

W Noble Avenue and NW 5th Street Florida  Google street view link

This is from my trip back from the ICA meeting in April.

Front venting area:  Dilling & Harris Max-Vend-Master with bill acceptor and an American AC2225 changer

Coleman vacuums

Bay setup

Water Wizard setup and American entry unit install

My GPS said “Gatorland Carwash” at 14513 Gatorland Drive, Orlando, FL. but the name does not really matter.

First picture is the front view and the second picture it from the entry road next to a Flex-Serve.

Front view: I like the glass block and the road sign.

Vending:  I like the “Suggestions” box and it is interesting that they replaced the Dilling & Harris Vend-Master product door.  They replaced the plastic with metal.

Back view:  First picture show painted arrows on the ground which is a good idea.  I just doubt it would help.

Bay:  Some interesting notes are the crappy foam brushes and the garbage can in every bay.  I love the large timer conversion.

Automatic:  PDQ Laser 4000 had an interesting purge setup in the automatic.  Not really sure what or why it was purging though.

Vacuums:  They has some weird vandalism problems?  I actually had someone steal my gun off my Fragramatics fragrance vacuum before.  They unscrewed the gun and took it.

I have been to this car wash before but I just happened to be driving by again.  http://cwguy.com/?p=868

Looks like someone vandalized his vacuum and he has someone that is going through his vacuums for change.

Everything else looked about the same.

Look the car wash is “NOW OPEN” for the past 2 years.  http://cwguy.com/?p=992

Something that as not open is his PowerRain automatic.  Seems like every time I drive by it is closed.

All E’s car wash sold out to Classic Car.  I was too lazy to drive in to take better pictures, but I did do a drive by.

Below are some old pictures of the car wash.  Want more pictures?  Click HERE.  This car wash is down the street from my Dad’s carwash.  Classic Carwash was giving away free washes last Friday and my Dad said that his business was actually up that day. Weird.

This car wash was located next to the wharf in Orange Beach.  Looks like a really nice car wash and I like the little kid tricycle tied up in the tree with christmas lights.  Nice touch.

I like the changer sign in the first picture.  The second picture shows the Coke machine on the left and the equipment room roof.  I guess they remodeled the car wash and they “raised the roof”.

Please send in your pictures of your car wash and I will post them.  Also if you want to check out my sister’s site, check out meredithrowlen.com. 

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Old Marc 1 link:  http://cwguy.com/?p=1005 , http://cwguy.com/?p=2466

I saw this was on ebay for $170,143.

I did not take very many pictures but it looks like he got new oval signs, replaced the canopies, no more “CAR WASH” sign and a new awning.  Looks like the same thing as the “Metro Wash Express” but with neon.

Old Marc 1 link:  http://cwguy.com/?p=1005

Other updates:  http://cwguy.com/?p=2550

Metro Wash Express link:  http://cwguy.com/?cat=17