Headlight/Front parking light

[gingerd@teleport.com]

	I made a new friend today.  He works down at my local aircooled VW parts 
place.  This is a good place to have a friend if you own a '66 Squareback.
	I've been having this headlight problem since I bought the car last 
December; high beams or nothing.  After cleaning the fusebox, and replacing all 
the fuses, cleaning all the light switch and relay contacts, still no "lows" 
would click on.  Well I bought a used light switch which now gives me consistant 
dashboard lights, but didn't help get the "lows" to work.  That left me with the 
new looking 12v relay to replace.  When I got to the shop to pick up a new or 
used one this nice fellow offers to test my old one, and when he comes back to 
the counter he's fixed the bloody thing NC!  Turns out he pried the cover off 
and bent one of the high/low (#56a/#56b) contacts make a sound connection.  
That's so cool.
	Now the question for all those VWiser than I; are the front parking 
lights supposed to go off when pulling the light switch from park to headlight 
position?  Previously someone stated this might be a factory thing, if so, it is 
lame, and I'm going to figure a way to bypass it...  Looks to me like I could 
connect the tail light wire/fuse (fuse #1) to the parking light fuse (fuse #7 
for a '66).  Has anyone done this?

Regards, Peter Parker