Interesting! Thanks. 
It would probably suit women more if the teenaged girls didn’t wear bikini tops at the car wash.
Anyone who suggest they should is a discriminatory misogynist.
Three cheers for feminism!
The only bikini car washes I ever see are high schoolers at corners waving towels and swiveling their hips with a giant “Car Wash” sign. I find it creepy to even look in their direction.
If, for some strange reason, I ever did decide to have these teenagers-in-bikinis wash my vehicle, I wouldn’t even know what to do while they scrubbed. Do I watch them and smile? Keep my eyes fixed upon my phone? Stare steely-eyed into the distance? Lay back and close my eyes? It’s just all too awkward.
Yes, I took my car to one of those car washes for charity. No, I didn’t take any pictures.
There was a pretty girl holding up a sign saying “Car Wash” and I could see several other, high-school-aged girls in bikinis (and boys in shorts, but I didn’t care about them). So I pulled in, paid my $10 or whatever it was, and went over to a picnic bench where I was served lemonade and cheap cookies while the cute girls (and guys) washed my car. Yes, I watched them - they were cute teenage girls in bikinis. I didn’t fondle myself or make crass comments. IIRC it was some high school charity.
I suppose the minimum age should be whenever they are interesting to look at in a bikini. They develop young these days, so maybe 13 or 14.
My daughter did participate in such an event, also for charity. As I recall it was her boyfriend’s motorcycle club doing some event to fund spay-and-neuter for pets. So she spent an afternoon washing cars in her bikini. No doubt some dirty old man watched her just like I watched the cute teen age girls washing my car. It happens.
Newsflash: Men like to look at pretty girls in bikinis. The charity gets money, my car gets clean, I get to look at pretty girls in bikinis. Wins all around.
Regards,
Shodan
No, and thus, no pictures. I care about my vehicles.
I think there should be a minimum age (as with most things), and after a certain age, it would be my daughters choice, not really mine.
I think they’re a bit cheesy, personally, but some people (men and women) like it, so to each their own.
Yep, it’s definitely a thing. When I used to frequent car shows during the nice-weather months, they’d have them. It’s usually by college age groups doing their thing, but as someone else said, they usually have shorts on.
She could still do lowriders.
Once I saw signs near the veterinarian school at a university advertising a charity dog wash. I thought that if they had any stones, they’d offer a charity cat wash.
They had one of these near where I live last summer. It turned out to be a scam - while one of them was cleaning the outside, the other vacuumed the interior, except that this was just an excuse so that while the one on the outside was stretched over the windscreen with her soap-covered boobs pressed against the glass, the one on the inside could steal your wallet.
I got caught that way one Sunday afternoon, and also Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (twice), not on Thursday as they weren’t there, and last thing on Friday. Helpfully though, the local street market had a stall that knocked out imitation Morocco leather wallets for only £1.50.
You know how they say, “Take a picture, it’ll last longer”? People have the right to control how their image is used. A picture on the internet lasts longer than a brief glimpse in public. Just because they’re OK with being seen in public in a bikini doesn’t mean they have to be OK with the possibility of someone fapping off to their picture, which can exist for years after the event. If you haven’t considered that possibility, I sure as hell don’t want you taking my picture. Not that I’m fap-worthy material, but a photographer should not have an issue with someone refusing to have their picture taken.
You take pictures and put them on the 'net, you’re preserving the pictures in perpetuity.
You really don’t see the problem with this?
Why would you leave your wallet in the car for them to steal?
Cost of admission, if I’m reading the story right :).
That’s a joke, ah say, that’s a joke, son.
The vacuum cleaner’s not the only thing that goes whoosh!
The song, “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” was a hit during the summer of 1960.
Damn, you’re old. 
No, Older than that. I realize that I mentally had the bikini song in my first grade repertoire. That was incorrect, the song in my first grade repertoire was Purple People Eater. I was not a great sophisticate in grade school.
Yes, they covered the belly button. And if you were a really.nice.girl they had a little skirt.
Part 2–for the men.
Have you ever taken your car to a bikini car wash? If so, did you take any pictures, and if you did, how did the girls or women respond?
Nope.
Part 3–non-gender specific.
Do you think there should be a minimum age for a girl to participate in one? Would you let your daughter participate in one?
Yes, 18 or whatever the age of the jurisdiction is for things like strippers or whatever (not that it’s the same thing, just saying the age should be the same)
I have no daughter, but if I did, I certainly wouldn’t want her to. Nor would I want any female I’m close to doing it. Would I “let”, I don’t know that it would be something I’d be able to control other than a minor, which, again, I don’t think any minors should be able to participate.
Yeah, my answers were based on the ones meant to titillate, not innocent fundraiser type stuff where they may be dressed less than fully, but still not inappropriately.
A problem? You don’t see an advantage in this?
I take photos and more recently, videos, of a wide variety of local events. One of the intentions is to preserve the pictures in perpetuity. You betcha. Many of the subjects of the pix have since died, others have grown up, and places have changed. When I wrote a 150 year history book, pix from many sources made the book more appealing than merely text. You may not be aware of how many people have praised my records of people and events, and as time goes on, it will probably be more important than now.
So why is a teenage carwash so different from any other current event? How about the same participants in a mud pig wrestling? In a sporting event? Those people pay me to record it. Why would they treat the events so differently?
P.S. - I live in the San Francisco area. We have had several charity “tighty whity” car washes with buff men.