Car Wash is a 1976 blaxploitation comedy film produced by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Michael Schultz from a screenplay by Joel Schumacher. The film starred Franklyn Ajaye, Ivan Dixon, Darrow Igus, James Spinks, Bill Duke, Melanie Mayron, and Antonio Fargas, and is a comedy about a "day-in-the-life" of a Los Angeles, California car wash and its employees, owned by Mr. B (Sully Boyar).

The film also featured several unusual customers arriving throughout the course of the film, including Richard Pryor as Rich Daddy Rich, the Pointer Sisters as "The Wilson Sisters" supporting Daddy Rich's character, George Carlin as a taxi cab driver looking for Marleen (Lauren Jones), a "tall black blonde" hooker who skipped on her fare, and Irwin Corey who may be the 'mysterious pop bottle bomber'.

Other supporting actors included: Richard Brestoff, Michael Fennell, Arthur French, Lorraine Gary, Leonard Jackson, DeWayne Jessie, Lauren Jones, Jack Kehoe, Henry Kingi, Clarence Muse, Garrett Morris, Leon Pinkney, Pepe Serna, James Spinks, Ray Vitte, Ren Woods, Antonie Becker, Erin Blunt, Otis Sistrunk, Tim Thomerson and Jason Bernard. (The film also featured the vocals of local L.A. disk jockeys Jay Butler, J. J. Jackson, Rod McGrew, Sarina C. Grant, Billy Bass, heard during the film on the fictional "KGYS" radio station.)

When the film was originally released, it received mediocre reviews and was not considered a major success, but since its initial release has had a small but constant following. Promoters over-emphasized Richard Pryor's relatively minor role in the film, which has resulted in many miscreditings of Richard Pryor as a star of the movie.

The soundtrack album, mainly recorded by Rose Royce, proved very popular. The "Car Wash" title track, written and produced by Norman Whitfield, was a #1 hit and was one of the biggest hit singles of the disco era.

Car Wash is about a close-knit group of black employees who one day have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt, including Richard Pryor as a preaching 'wonder-man' who is loved by most but loathed by one, and a man who looks like a thief by the way he is holding his bottle, but it is really his urine sample as he is off to the hospital. T.C's love life takes a turn for the better and the songs keep coming. Written by Graeme Huggan

A day in the life of the employees at a Los Angeles car wash. Not all of the employees are black, there's a Mexican American and a Native American also out on the line. The man with the pop bottle is not thought to be a thief, but a madman known as "the pop bottle bomber". The chase around the car wash with the pop bottle and the scene with the "mummy" in the car are two classic scenes. Richard Pryor as the money-hungry preacher "Daddy Rich" is losely based on a famous Los Angeles money-hungry preacher from the 1970's. One of the DJ's heard in the movie is J.J. Jackson who later went on to be one of the orginal MTV Vee-Jays in the early 1980's. Written by Gerald D.