The reference to the "comic Ford" is a little unclear.
My guess is that it refers to a Ford automobile, one that was in some way "comic"; perhaps it was scratched and dented in a funny way, perhaps it made funny noises, or had a funny way of breaking down at the most innopportune times.
The main idea of the poem is that the author has returned to the town where he grew up, but he finds that he does not have particularly fond memories of it.
The author refers to the town as the place "where my childhood was unspent." He visits the family garden, which he recalls was "where I did not invent / Blinding theologies of flowers and fruits" (italics added). He cynically refers to his "splendid family [that] / I never ran to when I got depressed."
When the author mentions the "comic Ford," he seems to be continuing the list of fond memories that he does not have.
Like many people have discovered through hard experience, "you can't go home again" (see the first link below).
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