“Magic Wand….Texaco right off of I-75…worked flawlessly had medium volume and had barely any downtime, and it randomly closed around the time when Magic Wand went under.”
Don’t look to carwash equipment manufacturers for answers, look at demand side.
Shell USA revitalized its carwash network in 1999. Formula Finish included “conveyor,” standard architecture (i.e. gray/yellow color), proprietary chemical and CSI focus.
The pilot program was tied to Shell’s acquisition of Texaco assets when Dutch Royal Shell decided to upgrade the combined
fleet of 24,000 gas sites. Texaco program was named “Star” carwash.
Fourteen years later, Big Oil is out of the retail gas, c-store and carwash selling business and wash volumes at many gas sites in Florida have been squashed from recession fall out.
This is probably why you find a brand/machine like Magic Wand in gas-branded c-store and
“….gantry is just falling apart after not being touched for two years...”
“What about Futura?”
I say there is no future market for it.
same with Specialty Equipment (Futura), Magic Wand, Superior, AND A-OK... I Presume all of them went out of business, but what do owners do about parts??
