I need some programming suggestions

I have been trying to come up with a solution to my problemand quite frankly I haven't come up with a solution that fully fits my needs. I am hoping someone out there can give me a suggestion on which way to go with this.

Here is what I have:

I have a working vehicle hitbox system that uses interchangeable meshes to display damage. It also emits debris on impact based upon the material of the object it collides with. I have managed to get it so it not only successfully passes the hitbox through projectile collisions but also with onImpact (DIFS and Terrain) and onCollision(DTS) objects.

Here is what I need but haven't come up with a good plan for yet:

Since I can now pass the hitbox information to just about anything I need to have a system that per vehicle can have a different number of hitboxes since obviously different chassis sizes or types are going to have a different layout of hitboxes.

So lets say a variable in the datablock of numHitboxes = 8;

Based off of that I need to have each hitbox to have parameters assigned to it, such as, cleanState, damagedState, damagedState2, and chassisRegion.

I need to have the system be able to select the hitbox information based upon the number passed through a function and to be able to access the parameters for that individual hitbox.

I have considered arrays and creating an entirely new class of object called a hitbox with these parameters but am not entirely sure if that is the best way to go or if there is another better way.

I am not asking anyone to do my work here, I would really just like a suggestion or two.