Perhaps the most common antenna installed by amateurs is the VHF mobile antenna.  Many amateurs like to build their own, as opposed to buying something commercially made.

• A VHF-UHF 3-Band Mobile Antenna
  QST February 1980, pp. 16-17
  Three bands - 144, 220 and 440 - on one stick, a triband J-pole.
• A Glass-Mounted 2-Meter Mobile Antenna
  QST April 1991, pp. 31-34.
  Technical Correspondence QST September 1991, pp. 41-42
  Want a no-holes, no-paint-scratching antenna? This easy-to-build glass-mount mobile antenna is the answer!
• An Easy, On-Glass Antenna with Multiband Capability
  QST March 1993, pp. 35-37
  A homebrew on-glass dual antenna system for 2-meters and 222 or 440, etc.
• Bicycle-Mobile Antennas
  QST March 1993, pp. 52-53
  Mounting an antenna for your HT on your bicycle.
• Glass Mounted Antennas
  What the antenna manufacturers have to say.
• A Simple Halo for 2-Meter Use
  QST August 1957, p.29
  Making a car-radio whip serve as a single-wire transmission line
• A Two-Band Halo for V.H.F. Mobile
  QST September 1958, pp. 11-12, 140, 142
  50 and 144 MHz with a single mobile antenna system

• HOME BREW 6M HALO Mobile on "The Magic Band"
  by Jonesy or Marvin L Jones, W3DHJ