ThAnks sharkie. I wanted to leave it there but dad was too macho with s big technical ego so wanted to start it while I was gone just to prove how smart he is. He even wanted to give the car a clean himself so I said don't even think about it.
From what I can gather from the response of the aami guy over the phone, he said it's a big difference when a car is only engine submerged compared to the whole car being submerged 3/4 of the way. Fingers and toes crossed aami writes it off cause it'll never be the same and will only mean complaints and problems in the futre when things start corroding.