Ferdinand Budicki II (/bʊdˈɪtskiː/; 11 April 1871 – 25 June 1951) was a Croatian pioneer of car, bicycle and airplane culture.

[6] Their eldest daughter Greta lived with her mother in Vienna and married Harald Svenfelt, a cavalry officer in the Swedish army and co-owner of the Cloetta Ljungsbro chocolate factory.

[9] Their surviving son, Dr. Viktor Budicki (1905-1944) was a bacteriologist, trained in the USA and served in the military in 1927 in Varaždin.

In WWII, he was interned in the Stara Gradiška concentration camp by the Ustaše, accused of hiding foreign citizens.

[12][13][14][15] His Austrian-American wife, Margaret Juers Budicki, settled in Eugene, Oregon and worked as a field counselor for the Lane County Juvenile Department,[16][17][18] where she authored poetry in a book titled "Splinters" [19] and contributed articles to the feminist magazine The Women's Press.

[20] Their youngest daughter Jelena studied teaching and English at Newbold College, then worked as the Adventist Church secretary and treasurer for the Sava Conference until 1930.

[21] She married Pastor Fred Edwards, an English missionary to Ghana and teacher at the Adventist school in Agona, Ashanti.

[4] Budicki was taught how to drive by Otto Beyschlag and received extra training in the form of observing an electric tram driver at work.

[4] Budicki entered the business of new vehicles by opening a bicycle and sewing machine shop called K touristu ("At the Tourist's") at 24 Mavrova Street in 1899.

Later that year he had to exit the automobile business due to the stock market crash of 1929, retaining only a car repair shop.

[32][33] In 2018 the museum moved to Westgate Shopping City, Zaprešić,[34] due to a lack of public funding and disagreements between mayor Milan Bandić and manager Valentino Valjak.

I met him once - it was the first time we could visit Zagreb after the war - that was, I think, 1947, I'd be about 14 then..." Valjak has written extensively about Budicki in his book BEŠTE LJUDI - IDE AUTO (Povijest automobilizma u Hrvatskoj 1898.