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The serial #s on my dash plate and wheel well manufacture plate do not match. Are they supposed to be the same number? thanks.

Should be but often not. Easy removal and the many hands that
have handled these rigs often result in missing and mis-matched#s.
Resist the urge to conjure up a "correct"#, I'd keep the #s you
have and make it known that it may be that either 1 or none may
be correct. An incorrect # represented as correct helps to foul up
the fine data-base the guys here at WillysM have compiled.
Good luck with your project!!

99% of the time the tub serial is the serial on the patent plate. Most times when a tub is swapped in the owner doesn't realize the patent plate is even there. The dash plate from the old tub is moved to the new tub and they press on.

Another common occurrence is the removal of data plates en masse for restamping the tire pressures often resulted on some plates getting put back in the wrong jeep. Try to imagine yourself as a young private in the Army and the motor pool Sgt tells you to gather up all the M38 and M38A1 data plates in the vehicle storage yard for restamping of the tire pressures. He gathers all 150 sets up and spends the entire day restamping the plates. Then about 1500 he has to go put all 150 sets back in their jeeps. This is 1.5 hours before beer thirty! Do you think he gives a rats arse which jeep gets which plate?

I see what you're saying...I would definitely miss a "few" if I were that private! I was just wanting to know about the history of the jeep, but I guess being specific is out the window now. Thanks for the responses