Oh yes.They needed to get sets of replacement windshields over to france because the ones in the cars were cracking.Ford chartered a Boeing 707 freighter to carry over the windshields overnight.So yeah, Ford meant business and the business was to whip the ass of ferrari.
Yep - too see a good article that shows a lot of the corporate effort and (at the time) cutting-edge expense that was thrown at the GT40's development, Click here. I think the computer design stuff is amazing, given the mid-1960s time frame.