Lenco L75-S16

Gee, Scott.  The thread is 7 months old. What are the odds that "autre" has not already sold his Lenco?  Small, I would guess.

But apart from being made in Italy, which might make the L75 S16 "rare" from a collectible point of view, how does that fact make it better or more desirable, vis a vis performance, than a typical Swiss-made L75?  You say it has the "heavy platter".  Heavier than what platter?  I don't doubt you; I am just curious.  I have a late model Swiss-made L75 that I bought NOS several years ago; it has the 8-9 lb platter that I thought was the heaviest they made for the L75.

To answer your question, yes, the Lenco L75 is "still" desirable.  Just go to Lenco Heaven and soak up the enthusiasm and the ever more creative ways in which guys have tweaked their L75s.  There's no end to what you can do to it.  Mine is in a 60-lb slate plinth, sitting in a PTP3 steel plate that immobilizes the whole assembly and is firmly affixed to the slate by bolts (see Peter Reinders on Lenco Heaven; he makes the PTP).  It has a huge aftermarket bearing and spindle made in England, and the platter has been dampened to reduce ringing.  The platter mat is a Boston Audio Mat1, my favorite, and the speed is controlled precisely by a Phoenix Engineering Eagle and Roadrunner. (Google is your friend.)
Total investment is about $1600; a little less than half of that was to pay for the Phoenix Engineering components, the most recent addition.

Peter Reinders also makes plinths out of Corian.  So you can have plywood (from John Nantais and many others), slate (from OMA, although I had mine made for me by direct contact with slate companies), or Corian.