I'm not saying that everything should be fixed with bailing wire and duct tape, but this seemed like a solid, low-buck solution for the wagon's rear window: http://classicmotorsports.net/project-cars/1975-pontiac-catalina-safari/rear-window-repair-81-cents/
Those tailgates were troublesome almost from the start...my college roommate had a Chevy wagon back in 1978; it was one of the coldest winters on record and the tailgate on that thing was stuck half open all winter.
My uncle had been doing the snowbird routine, New England for summers, Florida for winters. One year he realized that he really didn't need the car he had shipped north for the summer, and decided to give it to me. A '78 Mercury Marquis wagon. Think "Enterprise Class". Delaware on wheels. The gasoline company's friend. I could carry 4x8's with the back closed.
Since this was long after '78, the car had a few... lets say "quirks", one of which I discovered on a cold December evening. It had one of those dual mode tailgates, that would either open horizontally as a door, or, with the window retracted into it, flop down like a pickup tailgate.
I'd been shopping, and without thinking, ran the tailgate window down and tossed the packages in. You can guess the rest. I'm sure there were interlocks within the tailgate that prevented the window from coming up until the tailgate was closed, one of which was having an issue. the tailgate was closed, but the glass wouldn't budge.
The next day I started to take the tailgate apart, but suddenly the problem disappeared, and the window went up. I fixed it with a piece of tape, placed over the switch on the dashboard. It was only opened in "door" mode after that.
Stu
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