Bugatti Type 1

The Bugatti Type 1, also known as the Prinetti & Stucchi Type 1, was an automobile designed by Ettore Bugatti and produced by the firm Prinetti & Stucchi in 1899. Bugatti drew it up while an apprentice there. When the 1899 Reggio Emilia race was announced he was allowed to convert a Prinetti & Stucchi machine into a tricycle so that he could race, and the original Type 1 was fitted with two De Dion-Bouton single-cylinder engines put together, unlike the twin-cylinder motor of the earlier one-off Type 0 of 1897, which had been a proof of concept for it. The multi-engine versions were labelled the Type 1/1 for a single motor, the Type 1/2 for twin motors and the Type 1/4 for four motors, and one version had four engines, two on each side of the rear axle. At the age of 17 Ettore Bugatti won a race at Reggio Emilia on the Type 1. The first real production Bugatti was the later Type 13.