What a cool idea.
As an owner of a C1 since 1983, I'm very interested in this thread. I am also keen to find out if he uses the C1's suspension (king pins in front and solid axle in rear) over the more modern C2s (ball joints in front and IRS in rear)?
One thing that is a pain with 1953 to 1962 Vettes, is greasing the front end every 5,000 miles as required by the maintenance manual. There are 18 grease fittings on the front end. I greased mine earlier this summer. What a messy job. Thank God my grease gun is air driven.
Someday, I would like to purchase one of those Mustang II bolt in front suspensions. Sadly Corvette Central no longer carries the Jim Meyer kit for C1s. I believe Jim Meyer went out of business.