CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF; Foose's first production Hemisfear strikes terror on the runway.
AutoWeek, June, 2007 by Vaughn, Mark
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> Byline: MARK VAUGHN For a good part of the day, all we heard were swallows arguing in the still air, exchanging little cheepity-cheep-cheeps that may or may not mean anything at all in bird language but sounded quite pleasant to human ears too long in the city. Then, without so much as a "Clear!'' the pleasant pastoral setting was shattered by a distinctly mechanical assault: first the electrically driven whipitywhipitywhip of a small starter motor geared up to something much, much larger, followed by the whang-BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP of a barely muffled 6.4-liter, 540-hp Hemi V8, ...
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