Roger
  German cars, at least the ones sold in Germany, are wired so that
when parking on the verge of a dark road you can leave marker lights
on by leaving the turn signal switch on  (on the appropriate side)
when turning the ignition off. eg, leave the left signal on and the
parking lights on the left side only will remain on. Likewise if the
signal switch is left in the right position. Excellent safety
feature. That and the switched rear fog light built into the left
tail light.
On 9-Apr-08, at 9:34 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:08:44 -0700
> From:    Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: blinkered
>
> dear all those seeking an all-turn-ative
>
> when i arrive some where and have not straitened the wheels form
> arrival
> turn ...
> and my blinker is turned on ... but not yet moved to return to idle
> position
> ...
> and i have shut the van off ...
> ... low and behold ...
> the headlight corresponding to the direction the turn signal
> indicator last
> called from
> is ON ...
>
> took me several replays of same circumstances before i understood
> the great
> vanagon weirdness