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Free a Nipper!

  • 17-02-2008 5:12am
    #1
    il gatto
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    Anyone remember Nippers? You got them with Maxol petrol back in the mid eighties. Brendan Grace used to do the ads. They came in a cage styled box.
    I had the coolest one. It wasn't like your common or garden beige ones. He had wiry dark grey fur. I still have it somewhere (minus the arms which were one piece and slid out, and I thing the squeaker is gone too).


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  • #2
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    yeah, i remember. i always wanted one. they looked a bit like gordon the gopher and the other thing in that music video that drives a car


  • #3
    il gatto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭il gatto


    Flat Eric? Yeah, they did look like Gordon the Gopher too. Not mine though. He was cool:cool:


  • #4
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,062 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    We had a few of the different coloured ones - pink, grey etc and that other one with the dark fur. I think the regular ones came with a carrot and the other one came with a banana? My dad used to get LOADS of the tokens - we had t-shirts and waches of them too.


  • #5
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    http://www.estuaryfuel.ie/maxol_group/company_history.html
    1982 – Maxol ran “Free a Nipper” the most memorable and successful oil company promotion ever originated in Ireland.


  • #6
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,062 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    rubadub wrote: »
    http://www.estuaryfuel.ie/maxol_group/company_history.html

    Aww I thought there was going to be pictures of the nippers!:o:D


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  • #7
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    As an aside, around the time Brendan Grace was doing those ads, his wife had a baby. The headline in the newspaper read something along the lines of Brendan Grace Frees A Nipper:p


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