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I know a Van, it's a diminutive of Vanguard. According to his parents at the time of his birth they'd just read Hitchhiker's...
Like the Ford Prefect the Standard Vanguard was a post WW2 British car. I suspect they were also Van Morrison fans, but given the times and their family's politics they wouldn't have wanted to called him Ivan, lest they be disinherited and banished to Patagonia.
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