1911 Stoddard-Dayton Model 11-K Torpedo

The Stoddard-Dayton was a high-quality motorcar manufactured by the Dayton Motor Car Company in Dayton, Ohio, between 1905 and 1913. The company adopted a strategy of building the best cars with powerful engines. Henry J. Edwards, the chief engineer of the company, introduced many new inventions, like inclined valves with a single camshaft and hemispherical combustion chambers - improvements that were far ahead of their time. A car similar to this Model 11K was driven at the first race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All Stoddard-Daytons were beautifully built, even the low-end models were dressed in 15 to 18 coats of paint, each coat hand-sanded and rubbed out. The top-of-the-range limousines had 27 or 28 coats of paint, similarly applied.