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Four V1 Kits Out the Door: V1-556, 557, 559, and 560

V1-556 V1-557 V1-559 V1-560

Written by Adam Doyle on Jul 30, 2026

Four V1 kits went out this week. V1-556, V1-557, V1-559, and V1-560 are on their way to builders in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana.

All four are full cage chassis. The donor split came out even on this batch, two going onto SS Supercharged Cobalts and two onto SS Turbocharged.

Two Goblin V1 full cage chassis staged outside the shop on pallets, both fitted with white unpainted hoods and loaded with boxed kit components and body panels.
V1-556 and V1-560 staged and ready to load.

How We Ship Kits

We use Cunningham Transport for kit deliveries. They specialize in hauling kit cars and kit planes, and that specialization matters more than it might sound like it should.

The hard part of shipping a chassis is unloading. Most freight carriers deliver to a dock and consider the job done at that point. Kit builders don't have docks. They have driveways and garage floors. They don't have fork lifts and the kit won't fit on a liftgate.

Cunningham's trailers have a crane system built into the rig. The driver can lift a chassis off the trailer and set it down where the builder wants it without any equipment on the receiving end. You need to be there to take delivery and tell the driver where to put it.

A forklift lifting a palletized Goblin V1 chassis into the back of a Cunningham Transport trailer, with the trailer's built-in crane boom extended overhead and a driver waiting inside to receive the load.
Loading a V1 kit into the Cunningham Transport trailer. The white boom overhead is the trailer's built-in crane, which is what lets the driver unload without a forklift on the other end.

Transit is measured in days, not weeks. All four of these should be on their builders' floors shortly.
Adam Doyle
Written by Adam Doyle

Adam is a co-founder and co-owner of DF Kit Car. He has helped hundreds of builders go from donor car to first drive, and is hands on with design, operations, and support. Outside the shop he's into auto racing and tabletop games.