Not a stretch, but a shrunk: the first Fokker 70 prototype was constructed by cutting some sections from an exisiting F100 aircraft. This was back in the DASA-days, which preceded the demise of Fokker.
Thorough as these Germans were, they wanted to cut, shorten, re-attach and re-calibrate the electrical wires in accordance with the reduction in fuselage length. Fokker engineers suggested that it might be easier to simply create a big loop in the existing wires...