Nice work and pictures, Beastlick! The last one looks really good.
This weekend my wife and I washed both then Sonic and Mazda 5 with plenty of "help" in the form of a two year old girl wearing rain boots and a rain jacket. It was cute and mostly harmless.
During nap time, we clay barred both cars. I took a decal removal tool to the silver pinstripes on my Sonic. I've never thought those look good on my car, and it's such a difference now that they're gone. Lots of patience and goo removal stuff later, my doors are clean and blue.
While I was spending extra time on the pinstripe goo removal, my wife rain-x'd our windshields and used glass cleaner on the inside to wipe down the windows.
Finally, we waxed both cars. We are ready for winter.
There are some attached pictures, but they are taken with a bad camera from a bad angle with some bad lighting due to absence of the sun right now.