The only place the serial number was located was on the data plate to the left of the steering column. If that is gone you will not get a serial number.
You can look on the truck for a CFR. Sometimes they were in decals on the dash, grease pencil under the license plates, or occasionally stencilled somewhere on the body, but not officially. You may even find the number grease pencilles onto a new part of the Jeep somewhere. The CFR will be in the form of 74-09123 (or similar numbers but will start with the 74-and most will then have the 09 (although there were a couple hundred up in the 20,000 CFR range). If you find that number somewhere, then the serial number can be figured out. Clive Law has a database I believe of allthe CFRs vs serial numbers.
All the Canadian M151A2s were bought from the US Army and manufactured by AMGeneral so you will have to find a set of data plates with those markings. There are some on this forum who have data plates salvaged from the M151A2s before they were destroyed.
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