White Lightning 1973 His car a 71 Ford Custom 500 or Galaxie with a souped up 429 Police Interceptor/Cobra Jet engine for Moonshine Runnin' With Burt Renyolds, Bo Hopkins and Ned Beatty.. It's the part where Gator McKlusky actually Burt's buddy Hal Needham and 2nd unit director, also the director of Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II, Cannonball Run/Cannonball Run 2 and Stroker Ace. Hal Needham the stuntman and director who did the barge jump which was a 63 foot jump into a moving r