Just Cool Cars: '68 Dodge Dart restored over 500 hours

Chris Woodyard | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Just Cool Cars: '68 Dodge Dart USA TODAY's Chris Woodyard gets a tour of a restored '68 Dodge Dart in this edition of Just Cool Cars.

BURBANK, Calif. — Sherman White is a guy who loves to cruise around. And he has the right car for it, a yellow 1968 Dodge Dart that he has restored.

White, who lives in Pasadena, Calif., loves his Chryslers and Dodges. "I'm a Mopar guy," he explains, referring to Chrysler's famous after-market parts division. Back in college, he says he drove a 1974 Plymouth Duster — another famous and long-gone Mopar name.

The Dart was labor of love. White says he probably sank 500 hours into restoring it. It "gives me something to do on weekends," he explains. He says he was attracted to the car's "nice, boxy, curvy sharp lines."

For a guy who loves to cruise, there was no better place on a warm spring evening recently than Bob's Big Boy, the nostalgic restaurant in Burbank, Calif., that hosts hot rodders every Friday night.

"This is like a culture, like a hobby for the whole family," he said of the his car.