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Old 07-21-2008, 03:44 PM   #8
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I always thought that "Mag" was a contraction of "Magnesium", this being the alloy that the early cast wheels were made of, mainly for racing purposes. Production cast wheels were in aluminium alloy.
Spoked wheels I understood to be usually called "wire wheels".
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