Free a Nipper!

il gatto · 17-02-2008 06:12AM #1

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).

WindSock · 17-02-2008 11:07AM

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

il gatto · 17-02-2008 06:23PM

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

tk123 · 17-02-2008 07:23PM

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.

rubadub · 17-02-2008 10:40PM

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.

tk123 · 18-02-2008 10:47AM

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

Firetrap · 18-02-2008 03:26PM

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

Free a Nipper!

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