Like many of us, I'm a member of both boards, and while I agree that The Samba is an excellent board (easily the best VW board out there), the Pelican board is simply superb! It is much bigger, and it has much more to offer. Everett's site is wonderful at what it does at this point (forums with some fyi stickies, and classified ads), but it doesn't have the depth and the resources that Pelican has. But Everett is constantly improving his site, and I think the excellent Samba will perhaps be as good as Pelican in a year or so.