Patent ID: 8109561

Claim:
A car body structure comprising: a roof side rail that extends in a front-to-rear direction of a car body when fully assembled to the car body; and a pillar that extends in a direction that intersects the front-to-rear direction, the pillar including a first wall portion that extends from an upper end of the pillar in an up-and-down direction of the car body, and a second wall portion that extends from the upper end of the pillar in the front-to-rear direction, wherein the roof side rail and the pillar are connected to each other so that a tip surface of an end of a lower side wall of the roof side rail abuts an outer surface of the first wall portion of the pillar from a rear side in the front-to-rear direction, and an outer surface of the second wall portion overlaps and is in direct abutment with an inner surface of an upper side wall of the roof side rail.