The No Prep Kings series is dead. Its corpse is barely cold. And already, the fire sale has begun.
Daddy Dave” Comstock’s custom Audi RS5 drag car — the one that turned heads at SEMA 2022 and tore through no-prep surfaces for years — is now listed for $425,000 through Exotic Motorsports of Oklahoma. The price includes a meet-and-greet with Comstock himself, which tells you something about who’s expected to write that check.
The timing is no accident. Speed Promotions & Racing, the outfit behind No Prep Kings, pulled the plug on the 2025 season midway through. The series, which grew out of the “Street Outlaws” franchise by running events on unprepped drag strips to mimic street conditions, simply ceased to exist. When your racing series disappears, your purpose-built race car becomes expensive garage art — unless you find a buyer.
Despite wearing an RS5 badge and Audi’s signature front clip, the machine underneath is a 2009 Audi A5 with a chassis completely reworked by Tynan Race Cars out of Bates City, Missouri. The paint? Mazda Soul Red. Not from any Audi color chart, because nothing about this build follows an Audi playbook.
The powertrain is the real spectacle. Audi’s factory 4.2-liter V8 was ripped out and replaced with a purpose-built 8.8-liter supercharged V8 backed by nitrous. That’s more than double the displacement, breathing through forced induction and chemical boost.
The Quattro all-wheel-drive system — Audi’s defining engineering achievement — is gone entirely. Power goes exclusively to the rear wheels through a GM TH400 three-speed automatic with a titanium bell housing and carbon fiber driveshaft. A spare supercharger comes with the sale, plus a new rear housing for converting to a big-tire setup.
So what you’re really buying is a tube-frame drag car wearing an Audi costume, powered by an American-style monster motor, painted in a Japanese color. It’s a Frankenstein machine that only makes sense in the very specific world of televised no-prep drag racing — a world that, as of this year, no longer exists in its previous form.
The $425,000 ask is steep by any measure. Audi’s forthcoming 2027 RS5 — the real one, available as both a sedan and an Avant wagon — will cost a fraction of that. You could buy both body styles and still have money left over.
But this isn’t about transportation or even traditional motorsport value. It’s a celebrity memorabilia play dressed up as a race car transaction. The meet-and-greet inclusion makes the pitch explicit: you’re buying proximity to Daddy Dave’s fame as much as you’re buying an 8.8-liter drag weapon.
Whether someone pays $425,000 for that package depends entirely on how much the “Street Outlaws” brand still commands now that its competitive infrastructure has crumbled. Comstock built a massive following through the show and No Prep Kings. Followers, though, don’t always convert to six-figure buyers.
The car is a one-of-one creation that would be nearly impossible to replicate for less. But replication assumes demand, and demand assumes a scene. With No Prep Kings gone, this RS5 is a race car without a race — searching for an owner who doesn’t mind.
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