Patent ID: 7651158

Claim:
A vehicle body structure comprising: a frame-shaped window mounting member disposed above a door hinge pillar to serve as a mounting seat for a sub-window plate; a front pillar disposed above said window mounting member to extend frontwardly and obliquely downwardly along a lateral edge of a front windshield; a hood disposed in front of a location of said front windshield; and a front fender disposed below said window mounting member to define a part of an exterior surface of a sidewall of a vehicle body, said vehicle body structure being characterized in that said front fender has an upper edge which extends in a longitudinal direction of said vehicle body at a height position spaced apart downwardly by a predetermined distance from a lower edge of a lateral end of said hood and a lower edge of said front pillar, so that a longitudinally-extending concave portion is defined between the upper edge of said front fender and the respective edges of said hood and said front pillar, wherein said concave portion has at least a frontward region partly receiving therein a headlamp lens and a rearward region receiving therein said sub-window plate at the rear of said headlamp lens, whereby a plurality of components including at least said headlamp lens and said sub-window plate are received in said concave portion to form a belt-line surface module which continuously covers said concave portion to define a transparent or semi-transparent exterior surface on the sidewall of the vehicle body.