Ettore Bugatti was born in 1881 in Milan, Italy, and by 1901 was designing racecars and displayed his first automobile (the Type 2) at a show in Milan. Eight years later (1909), he opened an auto manufacturing plant where he created and sold five cars by the end of the year. The company went on to produce many famous vehicles, like the Type 41 Royale in 1926 (one of the most expensive pre-war cars ever sold).  Still, when the Great Depression hit the
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