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I'm sorry about the quality of the images I had to do it from street view because I don't think this machine is there anymore. They use to have these machines all over the place where I'm from but they obviously aged so they removed a majority of them and replaced them with what appear to be mark 7 soft glosses (from what I can tell, but they appear to be either a variant of the mark 7 or a different machine all together) and another machine I don't know the name of.

Some extra details they are actually almost physically identical to the Ryko Softgloss system but they don't have lights on the amall brushes instead they have a traffic light at the front. The brushes are different (Made from a different material) and it has no drier system. Also they make that same compressor sound an Autec car wash system like the EV 1, the AES 200 or the AES 400.

So if anyone knows what machine this is please tell me it would be really cool to know.
 
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Do a youtube search for Ryko R7B. That looks like it could be what you are looking for. The video only shows it from the entrance though.
 

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Not sure the exact model, but appears to be a Ryko R7B UltraClean.
 

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The R7B UltraClean was one of the first ones with tall rear arms. There were several variants of the R7B model line. When this model included an on-board dryer were referred to as a "Mini-Tunnel". Most were relay-based machines and were extremely popular in the early 90's across the US. It wasn't uncommon for these machines to run well over 1.5 million cycles if maintained properly. There are still some around, but most sites have been upgraded to the Softgloss model (Internationally known as a Premier Plus).
 
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