If that CSA has the furniture and features you like, then it's a good deal. If you just want a VZ58-type rifle, and like the original furniture, then I'd search Armslist, Gunbroker, and Guns America for a local source for the VZ2008. The VZ2008 may not have as choice a selection of surplus parts, but even my ugliest, most beaten, most patched-together VZ2008 works perfectly. They were going for about $600-700 last time I checked, then about $75 to get the carrier tabbed and about $30 for a decent muzzle device. If you're going to change out all the factory furniture, then the with the rising price of VZ2008's the CSA is probably a better deal in the long run. To make the CSA practically 922r compliant -- removing dependence on the follower and floor plate -- it would be about another $100 for a US-made piston and FCG, if you can find them. You could also buy a bunch of polymer floor plates and followers, but that gets into diminishing returns the more mags you buy.
Another advantage the CSA has is the chrome-lined barrel and nitriding. For semi-auto, heavy-hobby use, however, I don't think that the non-chrome barrel on the VZ2008 is an issue and will probably out last the owner, especially if there are other guns in the safe of any sort to cycle into range rotation.
