Found another part from Home Depot racing.
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Looked closer at the dead AC compressor. Followed the wire with my fingers...and it kind of just disintegrated and pulled out from between the frozen wheel and the housing. Could this have happened in the last 2,100 miles driving home? I suppose. It's also highly probable that Mark and Justin did not check, inspect or look at it in any way, and just obliviously bolted a crusty-ass, rusty, 8-year old AC compressor onto the VE.
Maybe I'm being picky at this point. I know my old long-term mechanic Mike would have called me on that beat-up AC compressor. He would have both had my thanks and made himself some more money.