From the Guns.com Warehouse: The Atomic Age Whitney Wolverine (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

From the scores of guns Richard Hillberg worked on in his career, the Whitney Wolverine was his favorite (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)
From the wide range of options in the Guns.com Warehouse, we bring you one of the neatest 1950s-era plinkers ever fielded, the Whitney Wolverine.
Springing from the mind of storied firearms inventor Robert L. Hillberg, the Wolverine fit its era when it came to aesthetics, with a dynamically contoured design and sweeping lines akin to the exotic race cars of the day such as the Ferrari 335 S Spider Scaglietti and Mercedes-Benz W196 — but in an affordable .22LR pistol.
Hillberg, a Navy veteran who had a hand in some of the most iconic firearms of the 20th Century, struck out and co-founded the brand-new Whitney Firearms Company in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut, as an ode to famous Industrial Revolution kick starter Eli Whitney.
Their flagship gun, billed as “Modern as Tomorrow,” was the Wolverine.
Whitney was a new company in 1955, and their Wolverine was their signature offering
For the low-low price of just $39.95, the Whitney Wolverine was billed as the world’s fastest pointing AND firing pistol with “never before possible” monoblock construction, and exclusive safety features– no extra charge for its Flash

Source: Guns.com