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CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF; Foose's first production Hemisfear strikes terror on the runway.

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| June 04, 2007 | Vaughn, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2007 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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, the dual exhaust tips of which were aimed just about square at us.

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