If you can, take it!
I went to my first car cruise tis past tuesday.....dash is all cracked and the speaker is out, so a big gaping hole, missing/bad window fuzzies/rubbers, primer on lower front facia.....heck, I wouldnt call my car even CLOSE to show car.....and I was a little worried....but hey, its a work in progress...to me, any stage of completion of these cars looks good! I was the only Mopar in attendance.....so I can at least say that!
I would bring mine to Carlisle if I either had a trailer or had some road trip time under my belt with it.....as it stands, too nervous about it "making it" yet.