the 1000 sgs were often stretched as well, as much as . sgs' other famous effort was the gullwing, a version of the 500/560 sec equipped with gullwing doors. 57 gullwings are reported to have been built from 1982. the gullwing naturally had to be strengthened considerably, and had a discrete b-pillar mounted inside the cabin to help support the heavy doors. the price of the conversion in 1985 (without styling extras) was about the same as the cost of the car itself. aside from the arab world, several were sold to the united states, where buyers included comedian eddie murphy.