An old man told me yesterday of a method they used back in the '70's to
> prevent your VW to be stolen. Whenever they parked the vehicle for a long
> while on a high crime area, they opened up the distributor cap and removed
> the rotor. They just walked away with the rotor in the pocket. So a thief
> wouldn't be able to turn the car on.
Did that. And I would also sometimes pull the coil wire and take it with me. Also got a lock for the deck lid.
Then I got the bright idea of pulling the ignition fuse and replacing this with a blown one. Which I know prevented the theft of the Bug from a shopping center parking lot. Although the bozo busted up the deck lid in an attempt to learn why he could not start my transportation.