Abstract: The vehicle door has a conventional structurally rigid lower portion which movably mounts a transparent window panel for movement between a lowered opened position stored within the lower portion and a raised closed position. The door also has an arcuate shaped transparent window frame having a lower end fixedly mounted on the door lower portion and extending upwardly along the pillar and along the roof to define a structurally rigid upper edge portion of the door closing the spaced between the transparent window panel and the roof and the piller. The stationary transparent window frame is more curved than the movable window panel so that the vehicle body is dramatically curved and provides an aesthetically pleasing vehicle shape. A transparent seal structure is mounted on the transparent window frame and is engaged by the window panel to provide water tight transparent sealing.

Abstract: A headlamp assembly is fixedly mounted below the trailing edge of an opening provided in a forwardly sloping vechicle body panel. The leading edge of the opening is spaced substantially forward of the headlamp and in general horizontal alignment with the lower edge of the headlamp so that the illumination from the headlamp shines forwardly through the opening and onto the roadway. A closure door is pivotally mounted on the vehicle body for rotary movement about a transverse axis and has a first closure surface sized and contoured to mate with the body panel and close the opening to thereby conceal the headlamp and streamline the vehicle body. When the closure door is rotated downwardly to expose the headlamp, the first closure surface is stored within the space between the headlamp and the leading edge of the opening.