{"title":"Matt Stone","description":"Matt Stone (Camarillo, CA), former executive editor of Motor Trend magazine, has been a professional automotive journalist and photographer since 1985. He is the award-winning author and photographer of several books, including Motorbooks' best-selling 365 Cars You Must Drive, McQueen's Machines, McQueen's Motorcycles, Hot Rod Empire, and The IROC Porsches. He is the co-author, with Preston Lerner of Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman and History's Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed. Gigi Carleton, for more than 40 years, worked at Petersen Publishing Company as Margie and Robert E. Petersen's executive secretary and personal manager. She started there as a temp, working on organizational details for the Motor Trend 500 stock car race, sponsored by Petersen Publishing, at Riverside International Raceway each year. She was then hired by the Petersens as their full time \"right arm\" in the administration of all executive aspects of the business and many of their personal and philanthropic activities. Post the Petersens' passing, she is now president of the Margie and Robert E. Petersen Foundation, and was lifelong friends with the Petersens.Ed Iskenderian is one of the founding fathers of the aftermarket speed equipment business, and a worldwide legend in the field of high performance camshaft design and production. \"Isky\" launched his business in the late 1940s, using a single homebuilt cam grinding machine, in a small, dirt-floored shop in the back of a friend's tool and die company. His Isky Racing Cams, still a world leader in the high performance camshaft business has sponsored many famous, championship winning Bonneville and drag racers, including the late Mickey Thompson and Don \"Big Daddy\" Garlits. 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Mom went crazy, threw away my Fruity Yum cereal, and is now speaking in a different language! \"Okinawans, candida, gluten, glycemic index, microbiome, digestive enzymes.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is this crazy lady and what has she done with my mom?! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow along as our heroine goes through the lows of her mom jumping on an extreme, new diet and bringing her along for the ride. Like nearly all extreme diets, fun activities suffer, they struggle with low energy and lose their zest for life, and it ends with an epic but very fattening binge on junk food. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut fear not! 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