Chain Drive Rails, when your serious about hill climbing.

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#00CCFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#33FFCC" alink="#FF0000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <div align="center"> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <h1><b>Welcome to the home of Chaindrive Rails.</b></h1> <p><b>Your visitor <img src="/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=curtis.dat|display=Counter|ft=6|md=5|frgb=100;139;216|dd=I"></b></p> <table width="714" border="1" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="7" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" height="600" align="center"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div align="center"> <p><b>We designed the first chain drive rail in the late seventies after realizing that it's no fun replacing almost everything that rotates during every ride. Now, more than twenty years later, our rails have evolved into the most effective two wheel drive off road hill climbing vehicles to date. As you know, to stay on top you have to keep improving, so we have changed the Chaindrive system over the years to better suit the application of climbing those extreme hills and rocks. When it comes to hill climbing, if you want to be the baddest of the bad you will need one of our ChainDrive Rails. It's that simple. With our Chaindrive system there really isn't a limit on tire size, wheel travel, ground clearance or engine you want to run. <br> <br> It has also come to our attention that people have been coping OUR design which is not only under handed but IS illegal. Such practices will not be tolerated. Don't be fooled with cheap imitations of our rails.<br> <br> Everything on this web site is copyrighted. Nothing can be used without written authorization from the owners of the material. We here at Chaindrive Rails DO NOT advise or recommend hill climbing or take responsibility for your actions in any way. If you have any questions or suggestions just Email us or call (423) 745-8900 and ask for Curt or Bernard. We hope you enjoy the site and hope to see you in the woods soon. </b> </p> <p> </p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="353"> <div align="center">We're a small company in South East Tennessee. We <br> have been riding Rail Buggies since the late 70's. After <br> going through too many trans-axles and CV's to count, <br> it didn't take long for us to see that standard VW parts <br> just weren't going to cut it. So my father Bernard came <br> up with Chain Drive trailing arms. The first design <br> worked very well, but the amount of travel was still <br> limited by the CV's. The next design cured the travel <br> problem and worked even better; however, the trailing <br> arms had a bad tendency to "jack" when backing off <br> steep hills making the buggies want to wheel stand. This <br> isn't good when the hill is five hundred feet long and <br> over seventy degrees at the top. So we changed a few <br> things and now have trailing arms that can withstand <br> anything we throw at them.</div> </td> <td width="318"> <p align="center"><img src="meonwallr.jpg" width="242" height="251"></p> <p align="center">This is the hill beside the "Wall" at Etna<br> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="353"> <div align="center"> <p><img src="groundclearancer.jpg" width="225" height="162"></p> <p>This Rail has a turbo charged V-6 Chevy <br> engine riding on studded 18-44's. It also <br> has hydraulics on the suspension so it can <br> change the ground clearance for what ever <br> the situation calls for.</p> </div> </td> <td width="318"> <div align="center">We have been selling rolling chassis since '95. <br> Our chassis have been sent all over the Eastern <br> US. Our Rails (Buggies) are built for the safe <br> climbing of very tall, steep hills, and anyone that <br> has seen our Rails climb have seen one of the best <br> climbing vehicles built to date. Our Rails are NOT <br> hard to drive. Most of our customers have us <br> build their rails with an automatic transmission and <br> large engine to get them up or out of any situation. <br> Our Rails have a tremendous amount of wheel <br> travel along with large tires that can easily have up <br> to three feet of ground clearance (as seen to the <br> right of this page in the "ground clearance" photo) <br> under the entire rail without worrying about <br> breaking any part of the drive train.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="353"> <div align="center">This is the engine that I was using in my personal Rail. It is a late model NorthStar Cadillac engine that's all aluminum with four overhead cams, four valves per cylinder, twin turbo chargers, and twin propane units. The engine did a great job, however my dad being my dad decided it needed a little more. I now have a 400 cubic inch small block Chevy engine. I will probably use the Cadillac engine on my new single seater I'll be building myself this winter.</div> </td> <td width="318"> <div align="center"><img src="cadenginer.jpg" width="200" height="230"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.chaindriverails.com" target="_blank">Home</a> <a href="products.htm" target="bottomFrame"> Products</a> <a href="gallery.htm" target="bottomFrame"> Gallery</a> <a href="how2.htm">How To's</a> <a href="forsale.htm">For Sale</a> <a href="http://chaindriverails.com/guestbook/index.php">Guest Book</a> <a href="links.htm">Links</a> <a href="ownersrails.htm">Owners Rails</a> <a href="mailto:information@chaindriverails.com">Email Us</a><br> <p>Copyright © 2001 ChainDrive Rails. All Rights Reserved.</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>