Doors and fenders check out as does the straps above the running boards.
Doors and fenders check out as does the straps above the running boards.
OP's car has rear suicide doors.
1913 Hudson Torpedo hits all but the rear doors. Fender spotlight, 12 spoke wheels with the 6 outsides bolts, right hand drive. 
In reply to Steve_Jones :
Also, front fender to running board on OP's car has sharp angle, not curved.
I shared the photos with some experts and their guess was possibly a 1913-14 Interstate, but not 100% certain.
I believe they just called them "doors" back then.
1913 Marion Model 48-A Touring, according to someone in the AACA
Found this after you guys identified it:
He's following this thread too. I've never heard of Marion but there's so many automakers from that era that I know nothing about. Another rabbit hole to dive into. Taking inflation into account that was roughly a $47,000 car. Right in line with a nice family sedan today.
Thank you everybody for the sleuthing. This has been fun to read and Ted is happy to know what his namesake was driving in the mid-teens.
The auto boom in the teens was like the dot com boom.
There were hundreds of manufacturers, most never even built a car.
Marion earned a few pages in my Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Built in Indianapolis 1904-1915 and then Jackson, MI 1916-1918. Harry Stutz worked for them for a time. John Willys was also involved for a period. Early cars were air cooled. The later cars were powered by a Continetal six cylinder, which was a common engine used by a lot of early car builders.
The car in the pics seems to fall somewhere between 1913 and 1915, so would be an Indy built car. 1913 were 4 cylinder; 1914 you could get both engines, and 1915 was 6 cyl only. They were sold in a few different wheelbases. The 1916-1918 cars were actually Marion-Handley branded due to a buyout and subsequent move.
Ad slogan: The car that has sent men to thinking.
This place is always amazing...............the finest assembly of nerds and anoraks ever known to man.
In reply to Tom1200 :
Dorks, thank you very much...
I'm just feeling all warm and fuzzy that I could crack that book open again. I haven't looked at it in at least a decade. The Standard Catalog books are useful nerd tools for all sorts of data that can make you look like you know more than you do. 
ddavidv said:
Ad slogan: The car that has sent men to thinking.
They couldn't go with "The car that has driven men to think" ?
Those old timey ad-men were asleep at the wheel!
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