Jay Leno Drives a 1969 Chevy Camaro With 1,000 HP and Harley Davidson Headlights

What is the Strode? Jim Ring tells the story of the restomod's name. When preparing to unveil the car at SEMA around Halloween, he found out that Hollywood star Kevin Hart would bring his Michael Myers to the show. Michael Myers was a restomodded 940-horsepower Plymouth Road Runner.

Michael Myers is the main character from the slasher film series "Halloween." In the series, Myers can never kill his sister, Laurie Strode. So the Ringbrothers team came up with the name "Strode" for their Chevy Camaro because that meant that Kevin Hart's Michael Myers would never be able to defeat it.

The 1969 Chevy Camaro is heavily modified. It is covered in carbon fiber, has a roll cage, and has over 1,000 horsepower.

Ringbrothers started with a completely stock 1969 Chevrolet Camaro. They stripped it down and rebuilt every single body panel from carbon fiber. The door handles and side mirrors are also made by Ringbrothers.

The new body panels weigh just about 150 pounds (68 kilograms), saving about 500 pounds (227 kilograms) in the process.

The whole car, Jim Ring says, should tip the scales at around 3,600 pounds (1,633 kilograms). While driving it around Los Angeles, Jay Leno says it feels way lighter. Jim explains that it should be because of the perfect weight distribution.

Not much of the original 1969 Chevy Camaro is left

The only thing that remained of the original Camaro is part of inner structure of the car. Everything else has been replaced or heavily modified.

A Wagner engine supplied by a firm based in Markesan, Wisconsin, sets the car in motion. It is a 6.2-liter power plant, based on an LS3 with a Whipple supercharger, mated to a six-speed manual transmission.

This engine did 1,000 horsepower on the dyno in a 1966 Chevy Chevelle, but it is going above that mark in the 1966 Camaro right here.

The car also sports a premium interior in cognac leather with diamond stitching and carbon fiber. There are new dials on board, and the team fitted a new steering wheel while trying to keep everything as Camaro-ish as possible.

The roll bar integrated into the structure of the vehicle is hand-built by Ringbrothers. Jim says he tried a different approach with the car. That was because if he doesn't go for something different when he takes the model to a car show, there will be seven just like it there.

Digital-looking taillights and Harley Davidson motorcycle headlights

The Camaro has two filler caps at the back, but they are there just for the show. They are both for petrol, and both lead to the same tank. Back there, the taillights get a lot of attention.

The team machined and drilled holes in panels, trying to make the lights at the back look like digital lights while keeping them as 1969-ish as possible. At the opposite end, the stock headlights have been replaced with Harley Davidson motorcycle lights.

Jim says that there are customers that should not get that much power. That is the case with this Camaro. With a five-minute flip, he can tame the car just to keep the customer safe. Rebuilding a car from scratch is an almost two-year job.