Thanks for all the advice. Yeah, this will definitely be a rider. Hopefully, it'll be a nice rider (as in give a good ride), but this is for me to ride. It'd be nice if it looked cool-ish, but it's not going to ever be a museum piece. I have an additional question:

What's this about English vs. Italian threading when it comes to forks/headsets? Sheldon's site says they're both 24 tpi, and there are some headsets that say they're for either type of fork, but others say that they're specifically for one or the other (and most don't say anything at all). Does it really matter? Are they really interchangeable for my purposes?