That one goes way back.  My Mom's '61 Bug had it.  My Mercedes has it too, so maybe its a German thing.

Bill

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Bradley Flubacher" <flub@adelphia.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 00:52:10 -0500

>One that I've seen on maybe all VWs is the ignition key "lock".. where you
>can't move the key into the start position more than once without first
>moving to the off position.  I like that feature.
>
>Bradley Flubacher
>State College, PA
>'81 diesel rabbit
>'82 diesel westy
>'82 diesel van
>'84 GL wasserboxer
>
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>Of wb6otg
>Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:52 PM
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>Subject: Re: Headlight question
>
>
>This has been a feature of every water cooled VW I have ever seen (and I
>think it was probably on the later Air cooled as well)
>
>Bill
>
>