Free A Nipper

KevIRL

Anyone remember these? Think they were given away for petrol tokens. Advertised by Brendan Grace. In fact anyone have one?

Pigman II

Yeah I remember them. They came with Maxol and came in 3 colours (grey, yellow and pink afaik?).

I could never get one because my da was an Esso man.

Goolay

I used to have one of those!! Anyone have one around and willing to sell? Bout to become an Uncle and well...

ok fine it's for me.

RE*AC*TOR

I pestered my father for one of these for ages.

In fact i used to call it a "freeanipper" - would love to see a pic if someone's got one

Larianne

have no ideas what you guys are on about.. what it look like?? Surprised I don't know it as my Dad always went to Maxol for the petrol.

nlgbbbblth

yellow things

Maxol

early 1980s

nlgbbbblth

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Kêrmêttê

Aw, I remember those! I always wanted one... they were sooooo cute... but my Da got his petrol from Jet :mad:
Everyone in school had one except me!!! I had a lonely childhood because I didn't fit in... DAMN MY DAD AND HIS CHEAP PETROL!!

klap trap

:rolleyes:

Larianne

what they look like, I want one!!!

tk123

Hey we have at least one of them still around somewhere - they were pink, grey, yellow or black. We even had nipper t-shirts and watches - my dad was doing a lot of driving at the time and had loads of maxol stickers..the worst thing was when the squeaker broke!!

SimonMaher

Here they are! I really should not spend this much time looking for these things. Free a nipper...right!

Pete

nlgbbbblth

Pete Reed wrote:

Free a nipper...right!

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Larianne

so a poor imatation of Gordon the Gopher, yeah? Don't remember them at all! :eek:

Kingsize

they were the glory days of petrol station reward schemes
everyone seemed to have a watch/radio/calculator combo except me!!
a guy in my class used to steal Nippers from kids & rip them to pieces :eek:
he had "FU-Ck a nipper" written all over the place too!!

guest31

anyone remember saving up tokens for these ? !
They were the poor mans version of cabbage patch kids ...
Came in a green plastic yoke, actually I think they were better lookin' than the cabbage patch kids ...

I got one so must've saved up the tokens, can't remember whether it was with a garage or where,,, must've been.

Kingsize

colly dollies i believe they were called my younger sis definitely had one.
i think it was Quinnsworth (remember them?) who were givin 'em away

Goolay

Hooray for 3 year old threads

Does anyone have one of these lying around. I'll pay up to thirty eight Irish Euros for one. (doesn't have to have the little squeaker thing still - just can't smell like wee) Grey would be preferred. Anyone??

Archeron

Did those nippers come in a cardboard box shaped like a cage that you could see them through the bars?
I have this image of lots of them looking like little fuzzy prisoners behind the tills. (above the smokes!!)

il gatto

I had the dark grey, wire haired type. Coolest one by far. Still have him somewhere.

Firetrap

Around that time, Brendan Grace's wife had a baby. The newspaper headline read something along the lines of Brendan Frees A Nipper

nlgbbbblth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-gb9p65Z0

There's a few nipper videos up there.

Aglomerado

I had one until about 10 years ago, the dog got at it and it was no more.

Skerries

does anyone remember the puppet that bailieboro milk did the same thing?
I think it was a brown cow

nlgbbbblth

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