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introduced a system marketed as "Magic Doorgate": a conventional tailgate with retracting rear glass, where the tailgate could either fold down or pivot open on a side hinge; with the rear window retracted in either case. Competitors marketed their versions as a Drop and Swing or Dual Action Tailgate. For 1969, Ford incorporated a design that allowed the rear glass to remain up or down when the door pivoted open on its side hinge, marketing the system, engineered by Donald N. Frey as the "Three-Way Magic

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