My Ford Escape — Photo Gallery
Photos of the truck itself. A few full-size originals survived the 2004 web archive; the rest are marked and preserved in place.
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Est. 2002 · Kentucky · Restored 2026
Ford Escape Stuff
Welcome to my corner of the web — the personal site of a Kentucky Ford Escape owner. Photos of the truck, a radio-controlled Bigfoot built from a Barbie Escape, dancing Escape animations, printable Escape-Central business cards, and real DIY maintenance notes from the driveway.
Around the site
Everything Escape, all in one place
Seven corners of the site, each one built around a Ford Escape — the truck itself, a monster-truck tribute, and the things I learned keeping it on the road.
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The R/C Bigfoot Monster Truck
An 18-photo build log of a Bigfoot truck built from a Barbie Escape body and a Radio Shack R/C Avalanche chassis.
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The Big Barb — Barbfoot II
The follow-up build. Seven photos of the "new BarbFeet" recovered from the Wayback Machine and put back online in December 2004 glory.
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Dancing Escapes
Ford Escape… cha cha cha. Animated GIFs of Escapes in every paint color, in small and big — viewable and downloadable.
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Escape-Central Business Cards
Want to help promote Escape-Central? Download printable business card art in seven colors, plus the tribute-card page.
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Escape V6 Oil Change "How-To"
A 12-step photo walkthrough of an oil change on the 3.0 L V6 — drain plug size, filter choice, wrenches, and the right amount of oil.
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Tour de KY — Photo Album
Twenty-eight stops from a winter drive around Kentucky with friend Behr — Kingdom Come, Little Shepherd Trail, and a day of heaven.
Open the album →
The story
A 2004 website, restored with love
KY-ESCAPER.COM went live in 2002, back when home pages were built in Notepad and hosted on PowWeb. The version you are reading was captured by the Internet Archive on August 30, 2004, then restored and modernized: the layout now works on phones, every page is accessible, and content lost between archives was hunted down and put back where it belongs.
2002
Site first published
2003
Escape model year · 3.0 L V6 4x4
55+
Pages preserved & restored
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Photos recovered from the archive
From the FAQ
Quick answers for Escape owners
The how-to pages double as the site's owner's manual. A taste of what's inside the full FAQ.
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Is the Escape V6 drain plug metric?
Yes — it is a 15 mm plug, not the 9/16 inch many guides claim for later models. Use a 15 mm box-end wrench.
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What oil and filter does the 3.0 L V6 take?
Motorcraft 5W-20 synthetic blend, 5.5 quarts per the owner's manual, with a Wix 51372 filter (wet the gasket first).
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What's the right oil filter wrench?
A 3/8-inch-drive cap wrench works best; a "Rite Fit" A252 (93 mm × 15 flutes) fit perfectly on my 2003.
Fresh from the archive
Recovered from the Wayback Machine
The 2004 capture missed a handful of images that the rest of the web archive still had — including the four "new BarbFeet" photos from December 2004. They now live in the Big Barb gallery and in the Bigfoot build log.
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7 Big Barb photos
barb2_01 + barbie01–06, back online from Wayback snapshots of Dec 12–13, 2004.
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4 Barbfoot photos
James's and Rob's Barbfoot #2 pictures, referenced by the original bfoot page and finally restored.
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Every URL unchanged
All 55 original page paths from the 2004 site are intact, so old bookmarks and search results still work.
How the restoration worked →
Off the clock
Off the clock: When the Escape isn't taking up all my attention, I have
lately been deep in mechanical watches — the high-end looks, minus the second mortgage.
If you want to see where my eyes keep drifting, I keep coming back to
this replica watch resource;
the full list of links is on the links page.
Got an Escape question, or a photo of your own?
Drop me a line, or join the conversation at Escape Central — the Ford Escape message board this site has linked to since 2004.