 The body was aluminium over a rot-proofed ash frame.Like many Triumphs of that time, the car followed the American trend of concealing its radiator behind a flamboyant shining metal grill.The British market, then as now, was in many ways a conservative one, however, and, before Dolomite production was suspended completely, Triumph had time to introduce a "Vitesse"-branded version of the Dolomite on which the grill had been removed and the car's own radiator was exposed in the traditional manner.