Could someone please enlighten me on what's correct for the shocks and also the "dreaded Mustang caution fan sticker?" Sounds like I have some simple fixes to make...
Shocks would have been (for your car's production period at San Jose - where they were installed) FoMoCo marked adjustable Gabriel shocks front and rear painted semi-gloss black.
Fronts have a distinctive "washer" with a series of holes and a notch that is welded just below the top attachment point that is visible in the engine compartment.
Some more info found in a thread specific topic is available found it using the search engine
http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=7058.0The CAUTION FAN sticker was a safety campaign in the early 70's where Ford was concerned about the hazard a spinning fan could be - for one reason or another. To address they they sent out 100's of thousands of these stickers to ever registered Ford owner they had or could get records of, inserted one in each of the service replacement radiator shroud being made and tons of them to the dealerships with instructions to place one on every car in inventory and those coming in for servicing. The original design and application before this time was limited to a handful of specific Ford models where they only has a partial shroud
Because every original owner of a Ford at the time got one many of them installed them on their car only to be found decade or more later on an other wise unrestored car lead many people who saw or bought those cars to assume that the sticker was original since so many had them in place, In the 80-90's at shows they were expected until we learned the whole history