Abstract: A vehicle body comprises a windshield weatherstrip mounted to a front hinge pillar and extending along and engaged with the lateral end of a windshield glass. A door frame adjacent the front hinge pillar has an outer surface adapted to match the outer surface of the windshield glass and is engageable at the inner surface of the forward end thereof with the windshield weatherstrip. The windshield weatherstrip has an outer surface smoothly extending between the windshield glass and the door frame.

Abstract: A regulator handle assembly for the positional control of a car window glass includes a handle lever combined with a spring-loaded manual knob arranged slidable and rotatable on a hollow sleeve made at the free end of the handle lever integral therewith. This knob is slidable relative to the hollow sleeve and in the outward direction when manipulating the handle so as to enlarge the overall height thereof against action of a coil spring mounted within the knob. When the manual operating pressure is released, the knob is automatically returned to its height-shortened normal position under the influence of the coil spring.

Abstract: A guide track is divided into upper and lower sections, the lower section having a radius of curvature equal to that of a curved window pane to be guided along the guide track, and the upper section having a radius of curvature which is substantially greater than that of the window pane.

Abstract: A weatherstrip constructed in accordance with the present invention is to be used in a motor vehicle body structure including a roof rail defining an upper side of a window opening and a vehicle door having a window pane movable between raised and lowered position relative to the window opening. The weatherstrip comprises an elongated hollow resiliently deformable member secured to the roof rail. The resiliently deformable member has a web portion and a bridge portion. The bridge portion is so constructed and arranged in a hollow of the resiliently deformable member that upon flexture of the web portion by the window pane in raised position, the bridge portion is compressed between the roof rail and the window pane to bias the web portion against the window pane, and upon movement of the window pane in raised position in a direction substantially normal to the plane of the window opening, the bridge portion is flexed to keep the web portion in contact with the window pane.

Abstract: The edge portion of a hole in an inner panel of an automobile rear pillar is bent to form an inwardly opening channel to facilitate spot welding. The edge portion of an aligned hole in an outer panel of the rear pillar is bent inwardly to mate with the radially inner surface of the channel and is welded thereto to form a window frame. A windowpane is pivotally mounted in the window frame.