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Evan
Bonnet = Hood in US speak
The word 'boot' refers to the luggage carrying compartment that was originally called 'boot' in US stage coaches, which incidentally, were right drive, as were all early US cars, & this was finally phased out by 1922.
The word 'trunk' did not replace 'boot' in the US untill people started fitting trunks to the luggage racks of their Automobiles in the teens & twenties.

So there you go, in the US, the boot was known as the boot, which was changed to trunk later on. We still call this luggage compartment the 'boot' here in Australia.