Moving at highway speeds the ENTIRE ride on among the most congested freeways on the planet, let alone the most crowded one in the U.S..; not only was the footage brilliant, but your combination of planning and luck was just off the freaking charts!!!

Out of all the interstates that I've driven on, the 405 is the one that I hate the most. I've only been able to drive on it for more than ten miles twice without dealing with horrible traffic. You are so lucky that you were able to drive the entire length of the 405 without getting stuck in traffic jams.

i just love Los Angeles my favorite America's city. I spent my vacations in L.A. in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2013

best channel on KZfaq. thank u so much for allowing me to travel in my living room. its greatly appreciated!!

I have a hate/hate relationship with the 405. :D

Cool video, like the songs, and smooth traffic, rainy weather, but Cali needs the rain, they are in a drought, every little bit of rain helps

California with British weather!

A full-length ride along the infamous I-405 done the right way! I really enjoyed this one, especially since I only got to drive it at night. Whether by luck or good planning, getting the entire route with no traffic slowdowns was amazing to see. That mist, however, was quite surprising, for something like that to cause a high-end Sony to lose focus. Looking forward to the next!

A shining example of how EXPANSIVE L.A. Metro is...and this just two counties (Orange and L.A.). Nice work.

Impressive, it's awesome just to see where the engineers decided to lay the roadways back in 1969, and compare them to what they look like today, is amazing! Your music selection was on point for the ride, Fleet Wood Mac, was one of my favorite singing artists , and to think you play a song from a former member was cool!!! I really enjoyed the ride Jim!!

Awesome video, I LOVED it!!!!!!!!!!!! I THINK I'M IN LOVE with LA Freeways!!!!!!

Southern CA looks very different in the rain...looked nice through the mountains. Very nice!

This must have been done on a weekend. I drive this from Irvine to Inglewood everyday and it’s a nightmare. Great video. Keep up the good work!

Nice ride- liked the rainy weather- made for interesting and you flew up the 405! You had little problems as I have heard that road can be a nightmare- Nice ride. Great music too! Awesome ride on the 405!

Lambs all over the world were impressed that you were able to stay at or above the posted speed limit from end to end. You got lucky!

Thanks for another great ride, Jim. Since I left LA 15 years ago I haven't been on the 405 south of LAX, so thanks again for the update on that section. Interesting choice of songs for a road that is definitely not loved and was even called the devil's gift to man over 20 years ago (but I can't remember the source for that). And, I guess you can add "June Gloom" to your list of Southern California experiences. Looking forward to your ride up I-5.

Freewayjim- You Are The BEST! Love all your vids especially L.A. Love the music as well, as they,ve brought back a lot of memories. Keep on Cruising Dude!

Another fact about the 405 . Between the Wilmington and Alameda off ramps Southbound is the backside of LA County Fire Station 127 , who's exterior portions was the famous " Emergency ! " Station 51 .

Interstate 405 in California is a bypass route of Interstate 5. It's the 2nd busiest highway in the continent of North America. Just behind the 401 and above the 427, both in Ontario, Canada.

Thank you for these.

Even the rain couldn't dampen the spirit of your cruise up the 405! Really enjoyed this one.

My best 405 story is about a friend who lived in Venice Beach. One day he did a DerbyTown run for about 20 miles up the 405 on his Kawasaki ZX-7 Ninja. He outran the CHP cruisers but couldn't outrun the helicopter. They clocked him at 135 mph, and evidently they ran his plate and got his home address. When he pulled onto his street there were several cops waiting and they tackled him on his front lawn and cuffed him. He spent his weekends for about the next 6 months doing community service, wearing an orange vest picking up litter on the side of the freeway.

Love the mix of music on this one..!!

Thanks Jim for putting such a great song on here ! This song is a personal favorite , graduated from high school that year .

great job. loved the choice of Bob Welsh. I enjoyed my drives on the 405 back when I visited LA.

An open letter to Freewayjim - I enjoy these so much. It makes me feel that I am really there. Thank you from DSW. This happens to be my favorite one.

Very nice! I clinched 405 last year on my way to San Diego for the first time!

Great job. The fact you drove this with 0 slowdown is amazing

Notorious maybe, but when I'm driving from San Diego to Norcal I usually take the 405 instead of the 5. There's one spot of the 5 that always gets really jammed up around Commerce, especially in the old narrow section.

Bob Welch WAS a LA native. He died in 2012. The namesake baseball pitcher died almost exactly 2 years later.

Great video, great music, great trip and my friend thank you so much!! Greetings from Brasil!

I lived in LA..,this video bring me good memories, great songs, thanks

Another very cool video. Since you were going through San Fernando, I thought, for only a moment, that "Valley Girl" by Moon Unit Zappa would appear on the playlist. :-)

Good ride and songs.Pat is my favorite singer. Great job.

Oh God--those tunes! I blew my stereo speakers, my dad's car speakers and a headphone speaker on that Pat Benatar song when I was 15! Oh, yeah, the ride was nice too.

The 405 is nearly as long as the drive from Baton Rouge to New Orleans via I-10.

To think this was designed a "bypass." For some reason, I think of Nicolette Larson's "Lotta Love" when thinking of WB I-40 descending up the Mogollon Rim heading into Flagstaff.

Beautiful drive!

Been watching your videos for some time now, always impressed with the high quality of your work. I was wondering if you could give some helpful hints to someone that would like to do this on a lesser scale. For example, the video gear, something less expensive and what kind of mount would you recommend? I notice you upgraded the Acura as well. I had a 2006 TL that I just traded in..loved that car! Thanks man and keep up the good work!

I enjoyed your video, you passed near my house, I was pleased to see it from another angle, thanks and move on.

June 13, 2013... We very well could be in the southbound lanes on the 405. I'll have to watch this again, but at a much slower speed. We were on the 405 south of Century Blvd, headed to Carlsbad (Legoland). I remember that "marine layer" and how my wife wasn't interested in operating "Wife cam" that day. "It's too gloomy today".😀

Great ride Jim!

1:36 great how you slowed the pace just slightly so I could read the sign on the overpass. Exactly like it is when I'm driving and need to grab that exit on Culver in Irvine.

The 405 is my Kryptonite. Nice video!

Driving along the 405 the whole way without ANY traffic is truly amazing.

Awesome. And I love those silver metal fonts!

Perfect !! There's no one better than You!!

Awesome vid!

Yes the 405😀Thanks for the great ride.Nice memories..and yes the gridlock 😗

Song 1 0:35 Think I'm in Love Song 2: 3:37 Lotta Love Song 3 7:43 Precious Love Song 4 10:50 We Live For Love

"... with no traffic jams." Because that's what makes *this* ride special~

74 miles in 63 minutes seems very good to me even for a Saturday morning. Did you just luck out or is that what it's supposed to normally take?

This is probably my favorite one.

Do you have one between Los Angeles and Palm Springs?

My dad works near the I-405 and US-101 interchange in Encino at 12:46 in the video

I guess that I-405 in California and I-405 in Washington are very similar in that they are known for being really slow! I liked the joke about "405" being short for "four or five miles an hour." :D

LA has gotta be one of the most car dependent megacities in the world (18 million people)

i liked this video you did s great job with this

Having lived out there I understand you were trying to avoid the traffic by going in the morning but ,good grief,that weather! There are probably only 20-30 days a year you would get that 'Pacific cloud' effect that bad.....and hardly ever in summer.

That Inside Out poster was hilarious XD

I just took this highway today heading from Sana Monica to our Airbnb rental in Santa Ana and no wonder the traffic SUCKS!!!! I also made a video of our trip on this highway.

Belas...estradas de Los Angeles.

nice to see you missed rush hour there, i've been stuck in the "pass" for a hr straight.

I wonder you didn't get stuck in heavy traffic... Most Likely going from south to north in the AM. Going through the Sepulveda Pass was a frequent route of ours.. We passed the Getty Museum the Skirball Museum the the spectacular Valley on a clear night, you can see forever...

Where did you get that "extended version" of Lotta Love?

I'm a little confused. Does clinch mean you complete driving an interstate from one terminus to the other in one go? Thanks and nice videos.

Very nice !

The 405 may be named the San Diego freeway in California but it doesn't go to San Diego--it doesn't even go into San Diego County! However, at its southern terminus (where you started) it runs into the 5 freeway which does go to San Diego County and San Diego.

I have been stuck on the 405 in traffic in the middle of the night between Saturday and Sunday, How did you miss any kind of jam, even on Saturday morning? Lucky you were.

An open comment to Freewayjim - I truly enjoy these!

Thanksgiving rush hour through that section is insane.

That's why it's called June gloom Jim.

Compared to me that weather is great. In Boston it's 5 degrees and there is 4 inches of snow right now

9:37 I've felt like that a lot on the 405.

you really need a car in L.A. because it is very huge although the public transportation is very good

2:46 this is now high occupancy toll lanes up to thế LÀ county line

I love how you made sure to call it "THE" 405... up here in Seattle that's how we determine who the Californians are -- we have our own version of I-405 here and 9 times out of 10 if someone puts "the" instead of "I" before 405, they're from CA. haha!

Not a bad drive, actually. Was it Sunday or something?

If you need the windshield wipers on, Cali law says you also need to activate your taillights as well.

Tell me in did you pay for those freeway/highway while U use it ?

Woohoo! nice!!💃🙋🙌😎

The Love songs on 405

Lotta love:)

I-405 got a good lane start at the begining lol

Talk about luck, back in the early 90s my sister and I were headed back to the Valley from North SD County and for some odd reason we chose to stay on the 5 / Santa Ana even tho she lived by the 405. Well, we got home, turned on the TV and found out the 405 had been shut down in both directions in LB because a plane overshot the runway at the LB Airport and ended up in the middle of the freeway (fortunately no one was hurt) but HA!!!!!

+Freewayjim I LOVED the music and the video & you know why? Here's why: 1. I THINK I'M IN LOVE for this to be in my favorite videos. 2. It's Going to Take a LOTTA LOVE for me to watch Freewayjim's videos every single Monday. 3. I want your love, your PRECIOUS LOVE for these videos Freewayjim. 4. WE LIVE FOR LOVE of your videos Freewayjim! Have a blessed day Freewayjim!

No traffic jam? Must have been a weekend morning or a holiday.

I remember 405!

Rain in California!!!!

Right now I’m stuck in my hometown, but I’d rather be stuck in 405 traffic.

No traffic jams. MUST have been Sunday. I once rode a bus up I-5 near Commerce and there were traffic jams. On a Saturday!

good thing you didn't score the video with "It Never Rains in Southern California" :)

HOW!?!?!

1:29 I Did See That Image Coming...

Faz um vídeo mostrando a rota 66

I-405 is the most busiest freeway in California

7:23 They are building that stadium for the rams and chargers.

Ironic how the the thing I would expect would be a problem for you filming the 405 (The 405 itself) cooperated while the thing I would have thought would cooperate,the weather didn't cooperate.

I live in Torrance at 8:00

That Honda with NJ plates at 4:25 is a bit far from home. :P