Sure, because the car was designed in 1962/3.

Because wayyyyyy back then ( just ask BB or Rudi...2 old dudes) parking lights were just that.....lights you turned on when you were PARKED on the side of a road.  It was so blame dark, clowns in their Shivel-layz or Plymouths  would smash into you because there were no street lights (only oil powered lanterns).  Or, they were so 'slow' -like their cars- they didn't recognize another vehicle stopped on the side of the road.
Cars often times stopped on the side of roads for important things like rolling a cigarette or looking for  'the-church-key' to crack open a cold beer for the drive home.
Often times the parking lights were activated to give a little light inside the car.  Many times when engaged in ahhhhhhhhhh...more amorous endeavors like searching in your wallet for.......... "coverage"..... or the application therewith.
Many-many times the light in the all-important radio would be burned out and the interior/parking lights was needed to find WOWO or WLS or even The BIG APE (WAPE- Jacksonville radio stations on your AM dial.
On some occasions 'just the parking lights' were needed when bringing home your date a few minutes late (usually after 11:00pm) so her grouchy-old-daddy would have less of a warning to come out cussing & shooting because "you brought his baby-girl home late again........and I told you the last time to be on time........I know what you were doing..I can smell the beer and those stink'in cigarettes all the way up here......why are your clothes wrinkled and.....WERE is her panties"!!
Soooooo here are just a few reasons why the "parking-lights" were not always electrically connected to the headlights(which are now called RUNNING LIGHTS!!!)
Right Bullet??......Rudi?   That's what I 'heard'!!
6sal6

6sally6 wrote:

Because wayyyyyy back then ( just ask BB or Rudi...2 old dudes) parking lights were just that.....lights you turned on when you were PARKED on the side of a road.  It was so blame dark, clowns in their Shivel-layz or Plymouths  would smash into you because there were no street lights (only oil powered lanterns).  Or, they were so 'slow' -like their cars- they didn't recognize another vehicle stopped on the side of the road.
Cars often times stopped on the side of roads for important things like rolling a cigarette or looking for  'the-church-key' to crack open a cold beer for the drive home.
Often times the parking lights were activated to give a little light inside the car.  Many times when engaged in ahhhhhhhhhh...more amorous endeavors like searching in your wallet for.......... "coverage"..... or the application therewith.
Many-many times the light in the all-important radio would be burned out and the interior/parking lights was needed to find WOWO or WLS or even The BIG APE (WAPE- Jacksonville radio stations on your AM dial.
On some occasions 'just the parking lights' were needed when bringing home your date a few minutes late (usually after 11:00pm) so her grouchy-old-daddy would have less of a warning to come out cussing & shooting because "you brought his baby-girl home late again........and I told you the last time to be on time........I know what you were doing..I can smell the beer and those stink'in cigarettes all the way up here......why are your clothes wrinkled and.....WERE is her panties"!!
Soooooo here are just a few reasons why the "parking-lights" were not always electrically connected to the headlights(which are now called RUNNING LIGHTS!!!)
Right Bullet??......Rudi?   That's what I 'heard'!!


6sal6

Ok guys...  We have got to find something to keep ol’ Sal busy during this social distancing quarantine!  But actually, I am really enjoying all the posts making their way to the forum lately.
 

6sally6 wrote:

Because wayyyyyy back then ( just ask BB or Rudi...2 old dudes) parking lights were just that.....lights you turned on when you were PARKED on the side of a road.  It was so blame dark, clowns in their Shivel-layz or Plymouths  would smash into you because there were no street lights (only oil powered lanterns).  Or, they were so 'slow' -like their cars- they didn't recognize another vehicle stopped on the side of the road.
Cars often times stopped on the side of roads for important things like rolling a cigarette or looking for  'the-church-key' to crack open a cold beer for the drive home.
Often times the parking lights were activated to give a little light inside the car.  Many times when engaged in ahhhhhhhhhh...more amorous endeavors like searching in your wallet for.......... "coverage"..... or the application therewith.
Many-many times the light in the all-important radio would be burned out and the interior/parking lights was needed to find WOWO or WLS or even The BIG APE (WAPE- Jacksonville radio stations on your AM dial.
On some occasions 'just the parking lights' were needed when bringing home your date a few minutes late (usually after 11:00pm) so her grouchy-old-daddy would have less of a warning to come out cussing & shooting because "you brought his baby-girl home late again........and I told you the last time to be on time........I know what you were doing..I can smell the beer and those stink'in cigarettes all the way up here......why are your clothes wrinkled and.....WERE is her panties"!!
Soooooo here are just a few reasons why the "parking-lights" were not always electrically connected to the headlights(which are now called RUNNING LIGHTS!!!)
Right Bullet??......Rudi?   That's what I 'heard'!!
6sal6

 
All of the above Mike, like Meatloaf sung about the dashboard lights.
As for the parking lights, the practice came from Great Britain for parking at night. The Austen A-40 had a turn signal arm that flipped out from the B pillar it was left on all night. Could not get my head wrapped around that the first time I saw that over there. I guess it musta been alcohol related.

Hey Mike, did you use the parking lights back in the day, when you ran off the road, I mean when your friend did? Those parking lights sure musta helped with jacking up the car and backing out of the ditch....

That was an A 30 Josh. Useta drive an A-35, by then, the  semaphore turn-signal indicators were replaced with modern lights. It was alcohol related ... from drinking the warm beer.
NZed still has a parking light law.
"Heavy motor vehicles and vehicles fitted with a flat deck or tray for carrying goods that are parked on the street at night must display a rear-facing red light that is visible at least 100m away and is on the side of the vehicle closest to the centre line."

Texas! wrote:

If you want them to stay on with the headlights just splice the parking light wire into the tail light wire at the headlight switch.

They use a diode between the two so your headlights don't come on when you turn on the parking lights. That way you can sneak your girl friend up the drive way with out getting shot at, or what ever Mike was talking about.

Nos681 wrote:

Can anyone explain why the front park lights go off when headlights are on?
Why?

6S6's explanation is the best. 

I recalled that the 67 lights were the same way. So I just had to check. I placed the battery gently in its mount and took great care in attaching the cables. I turned on the park lights and nothing out of the front, butt the rears worked. So I turned on the ignition and tried the turn signals and they would only light the rears and the dash indicator. No blink. She-it another item to fix. I think the problem is in the column harness to under-dash harness connection as I have had problems with this connector before. 
 

gotta 'go-in-the-headlight-switch'............find the "plug" where the front parking lights are.....make ajumper between it and the rear tail lights. That'll mak'em work.
6s6

a little off topic butt very fitting ages 17-19   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw